1   /*
2    * OntologyConstants.java
3    *
4    * Copyright (c) 2005, The University of Sheffield.
5    *
6    * This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
7    * software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
8    * Version 2, June1991.
9    *
10   * A copy of this licence is included in the distribution in the file
11   * licence.html, and is also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html.
12   *
13   * Valentin Tablan 16-Sep-2005
14   *
15   *
16   *  $Id$
17   */
18  package gate.creole.ontology;
19  
20  /**
21   * This interface holds some constants used by several other intrfaces and
22   * classes in the GATE ontology API.
23   * 
24   * @author Valentin Tablan
25   * 
26   */
27  public interface OntologyConstants {
28    /** denotes a direct closure(no transitivity) */
29    public static final byte DIRECT_CLOSURE = 0;
30    /** denotes atransitive closure */
31    public static final byte TRANSITIVE_CLOSURE = 1;
32  }
33