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package com.sun.ejb.spi.io;

import java.io.*;
import java.security.*;
import java.rmi.*;
import javax.ejb.*;
import javax.naming.*;

import java.util.logging.*;
import com.sun.logging.*;

/**
 *
 * A Factory interface for creating an Object{Input | Output}Stream that
 *  allows serialization / de-serialization of "standard"
 *  J2EE Objects like EJBLocalObject, JNDIContext, UserTransaction etc.
 *
 * @author Mahesh Kannan
 */
public interface J2EEObjectStreamFactory {

    /**
     *
     * Obtain an ObjectOutputStream that allows serialization
     *  of a graph of objects. The objects can be plain Serializable objects
     *  or can be converted into Serializable objects using
     *  the handler
     *
     *@throws IOException when the serialziation fails
     *@return an ObjectOutputStream that can be used to serialize objects
     */
    public ObjectOutputStream createObjectOutputStream(OutputStream os,
            boolean replaceObject, NonSerializableObjectHandler handler)
        throws IOException;

    /**
     *
     * Obtain an ObjectInputStream that allows de-serialization
     *  of a graph of objects.
     *
     *@throws IOException when the de-serialziation fails
     *@return an ObjectInputStream that can be used to deserialize objects
     */
	public ObjectInputStream createObjectInputStream(InputStream is,
            boolean resolveObject, ClassLoader loader)
        throws Exception;

}