de.netseeker.ejoe.adapter
Interface SerializeAdapter

All Superinterfaces:

java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

CastorAdapter, JavaBeansXmlAdapter, ObjectStreamAdapter, UTF8StringAdapter, XStreamAdapter

public interface SerializeAdapter

extends java.io.Serializable

Interface defining all methods required by a (de)serialize adapter.

Author:

netseeker aka Michael Manske

Method Summary

void	handleClassLoaderChange(java.lang.ClassLoader classLoader) Signals a change of the ContextClassLoader of the current thread to the adapter.
java.lang.Object	read(java.io.InputStream in) Deserializes an object out of an given InputStream
void	write(java.lang.Object obj, java.io.OutputStream out) Serializes an object into an output stream

Method Detail

read

public java.lang.Object read(java.io.InputStream in)
                      throws java.io.IOException

Deserializes an object out of an given InputStream

Parameters:

in - the input stream to use for deserialization

Returns:

a deserialized object instance

Throws:

java.io.IOException

write

public void write(java.lang.Object obj,
                  java.io.OutputStream out)
           throws java.io.IOException

Serializes an object into an output stream

Parameters:

obj - object that should get serialized

out - the outputstream into which the object should serialized

Throws:

java.io.IOException

handleClassLoaderChange

public void handleClassLoaderChange(java.lang.ClassLoader classLoader)

Signals a change of the ContextClassLoader of the current thread to the adapter. This method will be called when the EJOE client is started with support for remote classloading.

Parameters:

classLoader -