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Statistical sampling library for use in virtdata libraries, based
on apache commons math 4
package org.codehaus.plexus.component.configurator.converters.basic;
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*
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/**
* Translates the String representation of a class into
* an instance of the class and vice versa
*
*/
public interface Converter
{
boolean canConvert( Class type );
/**
* Parses a given String and return
*
* @param str String representation of the class
* @return an instance of the class
*/
Object fromString( String str );
String toString( Object obj );
}