public JDBCValueClassMetaData(Element classElement,
    ClassLoader classLoader) throws DeploymentException 
{
      
      String className = MetaData.getUniqueChildContent(classElement, "class");
      try {
         javaType = classLoader.loadClass(className);
      } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
         throw new DeploymentException("dependent-value-class not found: " + className);
      }
      List propertyList = new ArrayList();
      Iterator iterator = MetaData.getChildrenByTagName(classElement, "property");
      while(iterator.hasNext()) {
         Element propertyElement = (Element)iterator.next();
         propertyList.add(new JDBCValuePropertyMetaData(propertyElement, javaType));
      }
      properties = Collections.unmodifiableList(propertyList);
}

Constructs a value class metadata class with the data contained in the dependent-value-class xml element from a jbosscmp-jdbc xml file.

Parameters:

classElement - the xml Element which contains the metadata about this value class

classLoader - the ClassLoader which is used to load this value class

Throws:

DeploymentException - if the xml element is not semantically correct

 public Class getJavaType() 
{
      return javaType;
}

Gets the Java Class of this value class.

 public List getProperties() 
{
      return properties;
}

Gets the properties of this value class which are to be saved into the database.