/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Alena Laskavaia 
 * 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:
 *    Alena Laskavaia  - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.codan.core.model;

/**
 * Problem category {@link IProblemCategory} or problem {@link IProblem} 
 * 
 * @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
 * @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
 */
public interface IProblemElement extends Cloneable {
	/**
	 * clone method should be implemented to support problem cloning
	 * @see {@link Object#clone}
	 * @return new object which is copy of this one
	 * @throws CloneNotSupportedException - it is declared with this exception but it should NOT throw it
	 */
	Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException;
}