1600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wangpackage gov.nist.core; 2600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang 3600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang/* 4600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation 5600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * 6600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 7600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 8600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * You may obtain a copy of the License at 9600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * 10600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * 12600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 13600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 14600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 15600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 16600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * limitations under the License. 17600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang */ 18600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang 19600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wangimport java.util.Map; 20600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang 21600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang/** 22600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * This is simply a Map with slightly different semantics. 23600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * Instead of returning an Object, it returns a Collection. 24600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * So for example, you can put( key, new Integer(1) ); 25600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * and then a Object get( key ); will return you a Collection 26600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * instead of an Integer. 27600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * Thus, this is simply a tag interface. 28600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * 29600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * @since 2.0 30600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * @author Christopher Berry 31600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang * @author <a href="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</a> 32600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang */ 33600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wangpublic interface MultiMap extends Map { 34600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang 35600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang public Object remove( Object key, Object item ); 36600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang 37600c7a4bbc7348167293eac928192e695b4ad5baChung-yih Wang} 38