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 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
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package org.eclipse.jdt.debug.core;


import org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException;

/**
 * The type of an array on a Java debug target.
 * <p>
 * Clients are not intended to implement this interface.
 * </p>
 * @see IJavaValue
 * @since 2.0
 */

public interface IJavaArrayType extends IJavaReferenceType {

	/**
	 * Returns a new instance of an array of this type,
	 * with the specified length.
	 *
	 * @param size the length of the new array
	 * @return a new array of the specified length
	 * @exception DebugException if this method fails. Reasons include:<ul>
	 * <li>Failure communicating with the VM.  The DebugException's
	 * status code contains the underlying exception responsible for
	 * the failure.</li>
	 * </ul>
	 */
	public IJavaArray newInstance(int size) throws DebugException;

	/**
	 * Returns the type of the elements in this array.
	 *
	 * @return type
	 * @exception DebugException if this method fails. Reasons include:<ul>
	 * <li>Failure communicating with the VM. The exception's
	 * status code contains the underlying exception responsible for
	 * the failure.</li>
	 * </ul>
	 */
	public IJavaType getComponentType() throws DebugException;

}

