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/* gvSIG. Geographic Information System of the Valencian Government

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Infrastructures and Transports Department

 * of the Valencian Gobernment (CIT)

 * 

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or

 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License

 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2

 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

 * 

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 * 

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, 

 * MA  02110-1301, USA.

 * 

 */

package org.gvsig.tools.lang;

/**

 * {@link java.lang.Cloneable} extension to define the

 * {@link java.lang.Cloneable#clone()} as a public method.

 * 

 * @author <a href="mailto:cordinyana@gvsig.org">C?sar Ordi?ana</a>

 */

public interface Cloneable extends java.lang.Cloneable {

        /**

         * Creates a copy of the object.

         * 

         * @see {@link Object#clone()}.

         * 

         * @return a copy of the object

         * @throws CloneNotSupportedException if the instance of the object cannot

         * be cloned. As this is extending {@link java.lang.Cloneable} so

         * its sure it implements it, so this exception may be used for problems

         * on specific object instances.

         */

        Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException;

}