source: trunk/autoquest-core-tasktrees/src/main/java/de/ugoe/cs/autoquest/tasktrees/treeifc/IEventTask.java

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package de.ugoe.cs.autoquest.tasktrees.treeifc;

/**
 * <p>
 * Event tasks represent single events. They have no children and are therefore the leaf nodes of
 * a task model. They provide information about the event they represent as a String description.
 * They do not refer to events, as they may represented several semantically equal but lexically
 * different events. Their description carries as much information as required to show the
 * level of distinction.
 * </p>
 * 
 * @author Patrick Harms
 */
public interface IEventTask extends ITask {
    
    /**
     * <p>
     * returns a clone of this task, i.e. another event task being identical to this. The event
     * type and target are not cloned but reused.
     * </p>
     * 
     * @return as described
     */
    public IEventTask clone();

}