IIdentifiable.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2004 Composent, Inc. and others. All rights reserved. This
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 * the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, and is
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 * 
 * Contributors: Composent, Inc. - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ecf.core.identity;

/**
 * Defines implementing classes as being identifiable with an ECF ID.
 * 
 */
public interface IIdentifiable {
	/**
	 * Return the ID for this 'identifiable' object. The returned ID should be
	 * unique within its namespace.  May return <code>null</code>.
	 * 
	 * @return the ID for this identifiable object.  May return <code>null</code>.
	 */
	public ID getID();
}