001/**
002 * Copyright (C) 2010-2015 The Roslin Institute <contact andy.law@roslin.ed.ac.uk>
003 *
004 * This file is part of JEnsembl: a Java API to Ensembl data sources developed by the
005 * Bioinformatics Group at The Roslin Institute, The Royal (Dick) School of
006 * Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh.
007 *
008 * Project hosted at: http://jensembl.sourceforge.net
009 *
010 * This is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
011 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3) as published by
012 * the Free Software Foundation.
013 *
014 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
015 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
016 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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018 *
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021 */
022package uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.model.database;
023
024import uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.exception.DAOException;
025import uk.ac.roslin.ensembl.model.ExternalDB;
026
027/**
028 *
029 * @author paterson
030 */
031public interface Database extends Comparable<Database>{
032
033    public String getdBName() ;
034
035    public DatabaseType getType() ;
036
037    public String getDBVersion() ;
038
039    public int getIntDBVersion() ;
040
041    public String getSchemaVersion() ;
042
043    public int getIntSchemaVersion() ;
044
045    public String getBuild() ;
046
047    public Registry getRegistry() ;
048    
049    public String getdBClassifier();
050
051    public Object getNewSqlSession() throws DAOException;
052        
053}