1 /* 2 * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source 3 * Copyright 2005, JBoss Inc., and individual contributors as indicated 4 * by the @authors tag. See the copyright.txt in the distribution for a 5 * full listing of individual contributors. 6 * 7 * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 8 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 9 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of 10 * the License, or (at your option) any later version. 11 * 12 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 15 * Lesser General Public License for more details. 16 * 17 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 18 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free 19 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 20 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. 21 */ 22 package org.jboss.util; 23 24 /** 25 * Clone the object without throwing a typed exception. 26 * 27 * @author <a HREF="adrian@jboss.com">Adrian Brock</a> 28 * @version $Revision: 1958 $ 29 */ 30 public interface JBossInterface extends Cloneable 31 { 32 // Constants ----------------------------------------------------- 33 34 // Public -------------------------------------------------------- 35 36 /** 37 * Clone the object 38 * 39 * @return a clone of the object 40 */ 41 Object clone(); 42 43 /** 44 * Print a short version of the object 45 * 46 * @return the short string 47 */ 48 String toShortString(); 49 50 /** 51 * Append the key class properties to the buffer 52 * 53 * @param buffer the buffer 54 */ 55 void toShortString(JBossStringBuilder buffer); 56 57 // Inner classes ------------------------------------------------- 58 } 59