Firts stage of Audit work

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source/java/org/alfresco/service/Auditable.java

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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1 
+ * with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a
+ * copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
+ * either express or implied. See the License for the specific
+ * language governing permissions and limitations under the
+ * License.
+ */
+package org.alfresco.service;
+
+import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
+import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
+import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
+import java.lang.annotation.Target;
+
+/**
+ * Annotation to defined key and parameter names for the auditing API.
+ * 
+ * If this annotation is present on a public service interface it will be considered for auditing. If it is not present the method will never be audited.
+ * 
+ * Note that the service name and method name can be found from the bean definition and the method invocation.
+ * 
+ * @author Andy Hind
+ */
+
+@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
+@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+public @interface Auditable
+{
+    /**
+     * The position of the key argument in the method list.
+     * 
+     * @return -1 indicates there is no key
+     */
+    int key() default -1;
+
+    /**
+     * The names of the parameters
+     * 
+     * @return a String[] of parameter names, the default is an empty array.
+     */
+    String[] parameters() default {};
+}