/*
 * 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
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package org.alfresco.service.cmr.dictionary;

import java.util.Date;

import org.alfresco.service.namespace.QName;


/**
 * Read-only definition of a Model.
 * 
 * @author David Caruana
 */
public interface ModelDefinition
{
    /**
     * @return the model name
     */
    public QName getName();
    
    /**
     * @return the model description
     */
    public String getDescription();
    
    /**
     * @return the model author
     */
    public String getAuthor();
    
    /**
     * @return the date when the model was published
     */
    public Date getPublishedDate();
    
    /**
     * @return the model version
     */
    public String getVersion();

}