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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