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The RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java applications to interface with RabbitMQ.

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package com.rabbitmq.utility;

/** 
 * This interface exists as a workaround for the annoyingness of java.lang.Cloneable.
 * It is used for generic methods which need to accept something they can actually clone
 * (Object.clone is protected and java.lang.Cloneable does not define a public clone method)
 * and want to provide some guarantees of the type of the cloned object. 
 */
public interface SensibleClone> extends Cloneable {

  /**
   * Like Object.clone but sensible; in particular, public and declared to return
   * the right type. 
   */
  public T sensibleClone();
}