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package com.sun.faces.spi;

import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.ObjectOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;


/**
 * This interface provides a mechanism to allow the use
 * of alternate Java Serialization implementations.
 * 
 * The implementation of this interface *must* be thread-safe and must
 * have a no-arg constructor.
 */
public interface SerializationProvider {

    /**
     * Creates a new ObjectInputStream wrapping the specified
     * source.
     * 
     * It's extremely important that the ObjectInputStream
     * returned by this method extends the serialization implementation's ObjectInputStream 
     * and overrides the {@link ObjectInputStream#resolveClass(java.io.ObjectStreamClass)}
     * of  to perform the following or the equivalent thereof: 
     * 

     * 
     *     return Class.forName(desc.getName(),true, 
                Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
     * 
     * 

     * 
     * If this step isn't done, there may be problems when deserializing.
     * 
     * @param source the source stream from which to read the Object(s)
     *  from
     * @return an ObjectInputStream
     * @throws IOException if an error occurs when creating the input stream
     */
    public ObjectInputStream createObjectInputStream(InputStream source)
    throws IOException;


    /**
     * Creates a new ObjectOutputStream wrapping the
     * specified destination.
     * @param destination the destination of the serialized Object(s)
     * @return an ObjectOutputStream
     * @throws IOException if an error occurs when creating the output stream
     */
    public ObjectOutputStream createObjectOutputStream(OutputStream destination)
    throws IOException;


} // END SerializationProvider