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package org.jboss.remoting.marshal;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * On RMI invocations we can't use customer Marshallers, but we need to decorate Invocations (or any other objects)
 * with some data before sending the object.
 * <p/>
 * We could use a ByteArrayOutputStream and ByteArrayInputStream but that would be an expensive operation,
 * so we decided to keep the needed decoration on an interface. Marshaller implementations could refactor their logic to
 * the methods defined on this interface so we can have a cheaper marshalling with RMI.
 * $Id: MarshallerDecorator.java 566 2005-12-30 05:26:51Z telrod $
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:tclebert.suconic@jboss.com">Clebert Suconic</a>
 */
public interface MarshallerDecorator
{

   public Object addDecoration(Object obj) throws IOException;
}
