1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2015 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.kew.rule;
17
18 /**
19 * A Rule wraps a rule definition (RuleBaseValues) and exposes it as a {@link RuleExpression}.
20 * 'Rule' is defined as an interface to make the contract in the system clear and independent of implementation.
21 * @see RuleBaseValues
22 * @see RuleExpression
23 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
24 */
25 public interface Rule extends RuleExpression {
26 /**
27 * @return the rule definition this rule is associated with
28 */
29 public org.kuali.rice.kew.api.rule.RuleContract getDefinition();
30 }