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+/**
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+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache 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.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * 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
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.lucene.search;
+
+import java.rmi.Remote;
+
+/**
+ * Marker interface to enable subclasses of {@link org.apache.lucene.search.Searchable} to be used via
+ * Java RMI. Classes implementing this interface can be used as a RMI -
+ * "remote object".
+ * <p>
+ * {@link RMIRemoteSearchable} extends {@link org.apache.lucene.search.Searchable} and can transparently
+ * be used as a such.
+ * <p>
+ * Example usage:
+ *
+ * <pre>
+ * RMIRemoteSearchable remoteObject = ...;
+ * String remoteObjectName = ...;
+ * Naming.rebind (remoteObjectName, remoteObject);
+ * Searchable luceneSearchable = (Searchable) Naming.lookup (remoteObjectName);
+ * </pre>
+ *
+ * </p>
+ * </p>
+ *
+ * @deprecated This package (all of contrib/remote) will be
+ * removed in 4.0.
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public interface RMIRemoteSearchable extends Searchable, Remote {
+
+}