1. /*

  2.  * @(#)Identifiable.java	1.10 03/12/19

  3.  *

  4.  * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

  5.  * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.

  6.  */

  7. 

  8. 

  9. package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior;

  10. 

  11. 

  12. /** This interface represents an entity that can be written to an

  13.  * OutputStream and has an identity that is represented by an integer.

  14.  * This identity is essentially the type of the entity, and is used in

  15.  * order to know how to read the entity back from an InputStream.

  16.  * @author Ken Cavanaugh

  17.  */

  18. public interface Identifiable extends Writeable

  19. {

  20.     /** Return the (type) identity of this entity.

  21.      * @return int

  22.      */

  23.     public int getId();

  24. }