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package org.jboss.remoting.marshal;
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import java.io.IOException;
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import java.io.OutputStream;
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import java.io.Serializable;
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* Interface that all data marshallers must implements.
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* Requires them to take Java data objects and convert
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* primitive java data types (i.e. byte[]) and write
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* Since the Marshaller is only responsible for doing
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* the conversion to primitive type, does not make sense
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* that would be supplied any type of object output to
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* write to, as this implies that the object that it
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* writes would be converted to bytes at some other
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* point external to the marshaller.
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* @author <a href="mailto:tom@jboss.org">Tom Elrod</a>
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public interface Marshaller extends Serializable
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* Marshaller will need to take the dataObject and convert
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* into primitive java data types and write to the
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* @param dataObject Object to be writen to output
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* @param output The data output to write the object
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public void write(Object dataObject, OutputStream output) throws IOException;
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public Marshaller cloneMarshaller() throws CloneNotSupportedException;
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