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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2006, 2008 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+
+module org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.IObservableCollection;
+
+import java.lang.all;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+
+import org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.list.IObservableList;
+import org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.set.IObservableSet;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for observable collections. Only general change listeners can be
+ * added to an observable collection. Listeners interested in incremental
+ * changes have to be added using more concrete subtypes such as
+ * {@link IObservableList} or {@link IObservableSet}.
+ * 
+ * @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
+ * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
+ *              Clients should instead subclass one of the classes that
+ *              implement this interface. Note that direct implementers of this
+ *              interface outside of the framework will be broken in future
+ *              releases when methods are added to this interface.
+ *              </p>
+ * 
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public interface IObservableCollection : IObservable, Collection {
+
+    /**
+     * @return the element type of this observable value, or <code>null</code>
+     *         if this observable collection is untyped.
+     */
+    Object getElementType();
+
+}