Adding JMCR-Stable version

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+/*\r
+\r
+   Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.types.CloneableObject\r
+\r
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more\r
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with\r
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.\r
+   The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0\r
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with\r
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at\r
+\r
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0\r
+\r
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software\r
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,\r
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.\r
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and\r
+   limitations under the License.\r
+\r
+ */\r
+\r
+package org.apache.derby.iapi.types;\r
+\r
+/**\r
+ * This is a simple interface that is used by the\r
+ * sorter for cloning input rows.  It defines\r
+ * a method that can be used to clone a column.\r
+ */\r
+public interface CloneableObject\r
+{\r
+       /**\r
+        * Get a shallow copy of the object and return\r
+        * it.  This is used by the sorter to clone\r
+        * columns.  It should be cloning the column\r
+        * holder but not its value.  The only difference\r
+        * between this method and getClone is this one does\r
+        * not objectify a stream.\r
+        *\r
+        * @return new cloned column as an object\r
+        */\r
+       public Object cloneObject();\r
+}\r