1 /* 2 3 Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.services.io.Formatable 4 5 Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 6 contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 7 this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 8 The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 9 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 10 the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 11 12 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 13 14 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 15 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 16 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 17 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 18 limitations under the License. 19 20 */ 21 22 package org.apache.derby.iapi.services.io; 23 24 import java.io.Externalizable; 25 26 /** 27 Cloudscape interface for creating a stored form for 28 an object and re-constructing an equivalent object 29 from this stored form. The object which creates the 30 stored form and the re-constructed object need not be 31 the same or related classes. They must share the same 32 TypedFormat. 33 34 */ 35 public interface Formatable 36 extends Externalizable, TypedFormat 37 { 38 } 39