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This artifact provides a single jar that contains all classes required to use remote Jakarta Enterprise Beans and Jakarta Messaging, including all dependencies. It is intended for use by those not using maven, maven users should just import the Jakarta Enterprise Beans and Jakarta Messaging BOM's instead (shaded JAR's cause lots of problems with maven, as it is very easy to inadvertently end up with different versions on classes on the class path).

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package org.apache.commons.codec;

/**
 * Provides the highest level of abstraction for Decoders.
 * 
 * This is the sister interface of {@link Encoder}. All Decoders implement this common generic interface.
 * Allows a user to pass a generic Object to any Decoder implementation in the codec package.
 * 
 * One of the two interfaces at the center of the codec package.
 *
 * @version $Id: Decoder.java 1379145 2012-08-30 21:02:52Z tn $
 */
public interface Decoder {

    /**
     * Decodes an "encoded" Object and returns a "decoded" Object. Note that the implementation of this interface will
     * try to cast the Object parameter to the specific type expected by a particular Decoder implementation. If a
     * {@link ClassCastException} occurs this decode method will throw a DecoderException.
     *
     * @param source
     *            the object to decode
     * @return a 'decoded" object
     * @throws DecoderException
     *             a decoder exception can be thrown for any number of reasons. Some good candidates are that the
     *             parameter passed to this method is null, a param cannot be cast to the appropriate type for a
     *             specific encoder.
     */
    Object decode(Object source) throws DecoderException;
}