 method in the delegate index so that when the delegate
 index interacts with the persistence, it will identify itself as the outer or "effective" index.</div>
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<dt><span class="overrideSpecifyLabel">Specified by:</span></dt>
<dd><code><a href="../Index.html#getEffectiveIndex()">getEffectiveIndex</a></code>&nbsp;in interface&nbsp;<code><a href="../Index.html" title="interface in com.googlecode.cqengine.index">Index</a>&lt;<a href="SuffixTreeIndex.html" title="type parameter in SuffixTreeIndex">A</a> ext