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This artifact provides a single jar that contains all classes required to use remote EJB and JMS, including
all dependencies. It is intended for use by those not using maven, maven users should just import the EJB and
JMS 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.beanutils;
/**
* General purpose data type converter that can be registered and used
* within the BeanUtils package to manage the conversion of objects from
* one type to another.
*
* Converter subclasses bundled with the BeanUtils library are required
* to be thread-safe, as users of the library may call conversion methods
* from more than one thread simultaneously.
*
* Custom converter subclasses created by users of the library can be
* non-thread-safe if the application using them is single-threaded. However
* it is recommended that they be written in a thread-safe manner anyway.
*
* @version $Id$
* @since 1.3
*/
public interface Converter {
/**
* Convert the specified input object into an output object of the
* specified type.
*
* @param the desired result type
* @param type Data type to which this value should be converted
* @param value The input value to be converted
* @return The converted value
*
* @throws ConversionException if conversion cannot be performed
* successfully
*/
public T convert(Class type, Object value);
}