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 * Copyright (c) 2002 - 2006 IBM Corporation.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package com.ibm.wala.classLoader;

import java.util.Collection;

import com.ibm.wala.ipa.cha.IClassHierarchyDweller;
import com.ibm.wala.types.annotations.Annotation;
import com.ibm.wala.util.strings.Atom;

/**
 * Basic interface for an object that represents a single
 * Java member (method or field) for analysis purposes.
 */
public interface IMember extends IClassHierarchyDweller {

  /**
   * Return the object that represents the declaring class
   * for this member.
   * @return the object that represents the declaring class
   * for this member.
   */
  IClass getDeclaringClass();
  
  /**
   * 
   * @return the name of this member
   */
  Atom getName();

  /**
   * Is this member static?
   */
  boolean isStatic();
  
  /**
   * Get the annotations on this member, if any
   */
  Collection<Annotation> getAnnotations();
  
}
