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1   /**
2    * Copyright 2005-2014 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
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15   */
16  package org.kuali.rice.krad.bo;
17  
18  import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.ModelObjectBasic;
19  
20  /**
21   * Interface for business objects
22   *
23   * <p>
24   * Business objects are special objects to the Rice framework that indicate an object has certain features
25   * (like refresh), most business objects are persistable see {@link PersistableBusinessObjectBase}
26   * </p>
27   *
28   * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
29   */
30  public interface BusinessObject extends ModelObjectBasic {
31      
32      /**
33       * Refreshes any reference objects from the primitive values.
34       */
35      public abstract void refresh();
36  }