/**
 * Copyright 2005-2013 The Kuali Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
 *
 * 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
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 */
package org.kuali.rice.krad.service;

import org.kuali.rice.krad.bo.BusinessObject;


/**
 * Provides access to sequence numbers.
 * 
 * 
 */
public interface SequenceAccessorService {
    /**
     * This method retrieves the next available sequence number using the
     * dataSource that is associated with the specified BusinessObject class.
     * 
     * @return next available sequence number
     */	
	public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName, 
			Class<? extends BusinessObject> clazz);
	
    /**
     * This method retrieves the next available sequence number
     * 
     * @return next available sequence number
     */
    public Long getNextAvailableSequenceNumber(String sequenceName);
}
