/*

  * Copyright 2008-2009 The Kuali Foundation

  * 

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  * 

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  * 

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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  */

 package org.kuali.rice.kew.bo;

 import java.io.Serializable;

 public interface WorkflowPersistable extends Serializable {

     /**

      * @deprecated this method is dangerous and not really deterministic, especially in regards to

      * circular references, etc.  In most of the cases where we use this, we are using it to simply

      * strip primary keys and lock version numbers from object graphs.

      */

   public Object copy(boolean preserveKeys);

 }