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* Copyright (c) 2006-2008 g-Eclipse Consortium
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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*
* Initial development of the original code was made for the
* g-Eclipse project founded by European Union
* project number: FP6-IST-034327 http://www.geclipse.eu/
*
* Contributors:
* Mathias Stuempert - initial API and implementation
*****************************************************************************/
package eu.geclipse.core.model;
import eu.geclipse.core.reporting.ProblemException;
/**
* A <code>IStorableElement</code> defines methods to save
* an element to an <code>OutputStream</code> and to load it
* from an <code>InputStream</code>. That makes that element
* persistent.
*/
public interface IStorableElement extends IGridElement {
/**
* Load the properties of that element. That may cause that
* some predefined properties may be overwritten with the
* loaded properties. The element itself has to know from
* where to load itself.
*
* @throws ProblemException If an error occurs while loading
* this element. This is mainly due to <code>IOException</code>s.
*/
public void load() throws ProblemException;
/**
* Write the properties of this element. The element itself has
* to know where to save itself.
*
* @throws ProblemException If an error occurs while saving
* this element. This is mainly due to <code>IOException</code>s.
*/
public void save() throws ProblemException;
}