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 * Contributors:
 *     14/05/2012-2.4 Guy Pelletier  
 *       - 376603: Provide for table per tenant support for multitenant applications
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package org.eclipse.persistence.annotations;

/** 
 * An enum that is used within the TenantTableDiscriminator annotation.
 * 
 * @author Guy Pelletier
 * @since EclipseLink 2.4
 */ 
public enum TenantTableDiscriminatorType {
    /**
     * Apply the tenant table discriminator as a schema to all multitenant tables.
     * NOTE: this strategy requires appropriate database provisioning.
     */
    SCHEMA, 
    
    /**
     * Apply the tenant table discriminator as a suffix to all multitenant tables. This
     * is the default strategy.
     */
    SUFFIX, 
    
    /**
     * Apply the tenant table discriminator as a prefix to all multitenant tables.
     */
    PREFIX
}