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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior;
/** This interface represents an entity that can be written to an
* OutputStream and has an identity that is represented by an integer.
* This identity is essentially the type of the entity, and is used in
* order to know how to read the entity back from an InputStream.
* @author Ken Cavanaugh
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public interface Identifiable extends Writeable
{
/** Return the (type) identity of this entity.
* @return int
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public int getId();
}