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  // Authors: AFRL/RQQD
  // Organization: Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerospace Systems Directorate, Power and Control Division
  // 
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  /*
   * Copyright (c) 2005 FlexDock Development Team. All rights reserved.
   *
   * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
   * this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the
   * Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
   * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the
   * to the following conditions:
   *
   * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
   * copies or substantial portions of the Software.
   *
   * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
   * INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
   * PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
   * HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF
   * CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE.
   */
  package org.flexdock.perspective.persist;
  
  import java.io.IOException;
  import java.io.InputStream;
  import java.io.OutputStream;
  
  import org.flexdock.docking.state.PersistenceException;
  
  /**
   * Created on 2005-03-30
   *
   * @author <a href="mailto:marius@eleritec.net">Christopher Butler</a>
   * @author <a href="mailto:mati@sz.home.pl">Mateusz Szczap</a>
   * @version $Id: Persister.java,v 1.7 2005-07-05 14:53:26 marius Exp $
   */
  public interface Persister {
  
      /**
       * Serializes <code>PerspectiveInfo</code> to the supplied data stream.
       *
       * @param os <code>OutputStream</code> to persist perspectiveInfo to.
       * @param perspectiveInfo data object to be persisted
       * @return <code>true</code> when there was no problem with persisting the perspectiveInfo object.
       * @throws IOException in case of input/output problem.
       */
      boolean store(OutputStream os, PerspectiveModel perspectiveInfo) throws IOException, PersistenceException;
  
      /**
       * Deserializes <code>PerspectiveInfo</code> from the supplied data stream.
       *
       * @param is <code>InputStream</code> to load perspectiveInfo from.
       * @return <code>true</code> when there was no problem with persisting the perspectiveInfo object.
       * @throws IOException in case of input/output problem.
       */
      PerspectiveModel load(InputStream is) throws IOException, PersistenceException;
  
  }
  