/*
 * Geotools 2 - OpenSource mapping toolkit
 * (C) 2003, Geotools Project Managment Committee (PMC)
 * (C) 2001, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
 *
 *    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 *    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 *    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 *    Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 *    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 *    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 *    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
 */
package org.geotools.pt;


/**
 * Interface for dimensioned object.
 * Objects implementing this interface may have an arbitrary number of dimensions.
 * It is generally not possible to determine their dimension only by their type.
 * For example a {@link CoordinatePoint} may very well be one-dimensional (e.g.
 * a height), two-dimensional (e.g. a geographic coordinate), three-dimensional,
 * etc. The actual number of dimension can be queried by {@link #getDimension}.
 *
 * @source $URL$
 * @version $Id$
 * @author Martin Desruisseaux
 *
 * @deprecated No replacement at this time.
 */
public interface Dimensioned {
    /**
     * Returns the number of dimensions.
     */
    public abstract int getDimension();
}