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+/*
+Wotonomy: OpenStep design patterns for pure Java applications.
+Copyright (C) 2001 Michael Powers
+
+This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+This library 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
+Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+License along with this library; if not, see http://www.gnu.org
+*/
+
+package net.wotonomy.control;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+/**
+* A pure java implementation of EOGlobalID.
+*
+* @author michael@mpowers.net
+* @author $Author: cgruber $
+* @version $Revision: 893 $
+*/
+public abstract class EOGlobalID implements Cloneable, Serializable
+{
+    /**
+    * ObjectStores broadcast this notification when they 
+    * replace a temporary global id with a permanent one.
+    * EditingContexts listen for these notifications to
+    * update their mapping of global ids to objects.
+    * The object of the notification is null, and the user
+    * info contains a mapping of the old temporary ids to
+    * the new permanent ids. 
+    */
+    public static final String GlobalIDChangedNotification 
+        = "GlobalIDChangedNotification";
+    
+    /**
+    * Returns whether this id is a temporary id.
+    * Temporary ids are generated for newly created
+    * objects that have not been persisted.  When
+    * persisted, the temporary id is discarded in favor
+    * of the one generated by the object store.
+    */ 
+    public abstract boolean isTemporary();
+    
+    /**
+    * Returns a copy of this object.
+    * This implementation calls super.clone().
+    */
+    public Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException
+    {
+        return super.clone();
+    }
+}
+
+/*
+ * $Log$
+ * Revision 1.1  2006/02/16 13:19:57  cgruber
+ * Check in all sources in eclipse-friendly maven-enabled packages.
+ *
+ * Revision 1.4  2001/04/29 22:02:45  mpowers
+ * Work on id transposing between editing contexts.
+ *
+ * Revision 1.3  2001/03/15 21:10:26  mpowers
+ * Implemented global id re-registration for newly saved inserts.
+ *
+ * Revision 1.2  2001/02/15 21:13:30  mpowers
+ * First draft implementation is complete.  Now on to debugging.
+ *
+ * Revision 1.1  2001/02/05 03:45:37  mpowers
+ * Starting work on EOEditingContext.
+ *
+ *
+ */
+    
+