| /******************************************************************************* |
| * Copyright (c) 1997, 2008 by ProSyst Software GmbH |
| * http://www.prosyst.com |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * ProSyst Software GmbH - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.equinox.internal.util.io; |
| |
| import java.io.InputStream; |
| import java.io.OutputStream; |
| |
| /** |
| * Interface for custom serialization. Classes that implements this interface |
| * must have public empty constructor so deserialization can be done. |
| * |
| * @author Pavlin Dobrev |
| * @version 1.0 |
| */ |
| |
| public interface Externalizable { |
| |
| /** |
| * Use this method for serialization of object state. |
| */ |
| public void writeObject(OutputStream oStream) throws Exception; |
| |
| /** |
| * Use this method to deserializion of object state. |
| */ |
| public void readObject(InputStream iStream) throws Exception; |
| |
| } |
