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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2008 Paul C. Buetow, vs@dev.buetow.org
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
+ *
+ * All icons of the icons/ folder are 	under a Creative Commons
+ * Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License a CC-by-nc-sa.
+ *
+ * The icon's homepage is http://code.google.com/p/ultimate-gnome/
+ */
+
+package serialize;
+
+import java.io.*;
+
+/**
+ * The Interface VSSerializable, all classes which take part of the serialize/
+ * deserialize proces are implementing this interface. It is preferred over the
+ * standard Serializable interface of Java because we want not serialize the
+ * whole class tree of each class but certain variables only!
+ *
+ * @author Paul C. Buetow
+ */
+public interface VSSerializable {
+    /**
+     * Serializes
+     *
+     * @param serialize The serialize object
+     * @param objectOutputStream The object output stream
+     */
+    public void serialize(VSSerialize serialize,
+                          ObjectOutputStream objectOutputStream)
+    throws IOException;
+    /**
+     * Deserializes
+     *
+     * @param serialize The serialize object
+     * @param objectInputStream The object input stream
+     */
+    public void deserialize(VSSerialize serialize,
+                            ObjectInputStream objectInputStream)
+    throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException;
+}