1 /*
2 * Copyright 2005-2007 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.service;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.BusinessObject;
19
20
21 /**
22 * Provides access to sequence numbers.
23 *
24 *
25 */
26 public interface SequenceAccessorService {
27 /**
28 * This method retrieves the next available sequence number using the
29 * dataSource that is associated with the specified BusinessObject class.
30 *
31 * @return next available sequence number
32 */
33 public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName,
34 Class<? extends BusinessObject> clazz);
35
36 /**
37 * This method retrieves the next available sequence number
38 *
39 * @return next available sequence number
40 */
41 public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName);
42 }