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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package net.sourceforge.phpdt.internal.compiler.env;
+
+/**
+ * This represents the target file of a type dependency.
+ *
+ * All implementors of this interface are containers for types or types
+ * themselves which must be able to identify their source file name
+ * when file dependencies are collected.
+ */
+public interface IDependent {
+/**
+ * Answer the file name which defines the type.
+ *
+ * The path part (optional) must be separated from the actual
+ * file proper name by a java.io.File.separator.
+ *
+ * The proper file name includes the suffix extension (e.g. ".java")
+ *
+ * e.g. "c:/com/ibm/compiler/java/api/Compiler.java"
+ */
+
+char[] getFileName();
+}