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+// **********************************************************************
+//
+// Copyright (c) 2003-2011 ZeroC, Inc. All rights reserved.
+//
+// This copy of Ice is licensed to you under the terms described in the
+// ICE_LICENSE file included in this distribution.
+//
+// **********************************************************************
+
+package Ice;
+
+/**
+ * For deserialization of Slice types that contain a proxy, the application
+ * must instantiate a subclass of <code>ObjectInputStream</code> and supply
+ * a communicator that is used to reconstruct the proxy.
+ **/
+public class ObjectInputStream extends java.io.ObjectInputStream
+{
+    /**
+     * Instantiates this class for the specified communicator and input stream.
+     *
+     * @param communicator The communicator to use to deserialize proxies.
+     * @param stream The input stream to read from.
+     **/
+    public
+    ObjectInputStream(Communicator communicator, java.io.InputStream stream)
+        throws java.io.IOException
+    {
+        super(stream);
+        _communicator = communicator;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the communicator for this stream.
+     **/
+    public Communicator
+    getCommunicator()
+    {
+        return _communicator;
+    }
+
+    private Communicator _communicator;
+}