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package opennlp.uima.util;

import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import opennlp.maxent.GISModel;
import opennlp.tools.util.model.BaseModel;

/**
 * This class contains utils methods for the maxent library.
 */
final public class OpennlpUtil {
  private OpennlpUtil() {
    // this is util class must not be instantiated
  }

  /**
   * Serializes a {@link GISModel} and writes it to the given
   * {@link OutputStream}.
   * 
   * @param model
   * @param out
   * @throws IOException
   */
  public static void serialize(BaseModel model, File modelFile)
      throws IOException {
    OutputStream modelOut = null;

    try {
      modelOut = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(modelFile));
      model.serialize(modelOut);
    } finally {
      if (modelOut != null)
        modelOut.close();
    }
  }
}