Jumbo patch:

* Imported beans and serialization
* Updated IA-64 port
* Miscellaneous bug fixes

From-SVN: r34028

libjava/java/io/ObjectOutput.java

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+/* ObjectOutput.java -- Interface for writing objects to a stream
+   Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU Classpath.
+
+GNU Classpath 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, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+ 
+GNU Classpath 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 GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
+Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
+02111-1307 USA.
+
+As a special exception, if you link this library with other files to
+produce an executable, this library does not by itself cause the
+resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License.
+This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the
+executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. */
+
+
+package java.io;
+
+/**
+  * This interface extends <code>DataOutput</code> to provide the additional
+  * facility of writing object instances to a stream.  It also adds some
+  * additional methods to make the interface more <code>OutputStream</code> like.
+  *
+  * @version 0.0
+  *
+  * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com)
+  */
+public abstract interface ObjectOutput extends DataOutput
+{
+
+
+/**
+  * This method writes the specified byte to the output stream.
+  *
+  * @param b The byte to write.
+  *
+  * @exception IOException If an error occurs.
+  */
+public abstract void
+write(int b) throws IOException;
+
+/*************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+  * This method writes all the bytes in the specified byte array to the
+  * output stream.
+  *
+  * @param buf The array of bytes to write.
+  * 
+  * @exception IOException If an error occurs.
+  */
+public abstract void
+write(byte[] buf) throws IOException;
+
+/*************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+  * This method writes <code>len</code> bytes from the specified array
+  * starting at index <code>offset</code> into that array.
+  *
+  * @param buf The byte array to write from.
+  * @param offset The index into the byte array to start writing from.
+  * @param len The number of bytes to write.
+  *
+  * @exception IOException If an error occurs.
+  */
+public abstract void
+write(byte[] buf, int offset, int len) throws IOException;
+
+/*************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+  * This method writes a object instance to a stream.  The format of the
+  * data written is determined by the actual implementation of this method
+  *
+  * @param obj The object to write
+  *
+  * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+  */
+public abstract void
+writeObject(Object obj) throws IOException;
+
+/*************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+  * This method causes any buffered data to be flushed out to the underlying
+  * stream
+  *
+  * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+  */
+public abstract void
+flush() throws IOException;
+
+/*************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+  * This method closes the underlying stream.
+  *
+  * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+  */
+public abstract void
+close() throws IOException;
+
+} // interface ObjectOutput
+