there are situations where this marking is useful outside Cloud

git-svn-id: https://hudson.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/trunk/hudson/main@17800 71c3de6d-444a-0410-be80-ed276b4c234a

core/src/main/java/hudson/slaves/EphemeralNode.java

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ package hudson.slaves;
 import hudson.model.Node;
 
 /**
- * {@link Node}s that are created by {@link Cloud} and hence not persisted as configuration by itself.
+ * {@link Node}s that are not persisted as configuration by itself.
  *
  * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
  */
@@ -35,12 +35,4 @@ public interface EphemeralNode {
      * Type-safe cast.
      */
     Node asNode();
-
-    /**
-     * Gets the {@link Cloud} that created this {@link EphemeralNode}.
-     *
-     * @return
-     *      never null.
-     */
-    Cloud getCloud();
 }

core/src/test/java/hudson/slaves/NodeListTest.java

@@ -108,10 +108,6 @@ public class NodeListTest extends TestCase {
 		}
     }
     static class EphemeralNode extends DummyNode implements hudson.slaves.EphemeralNode {
-        public Cloud getCloud() {
-            throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
-        }
-
         public Node asNode() {
             return this;
         }