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 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jface.preference;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * IPersistentPreferenceStore is a preference store that can
 * be saved.
 */
public interface IPersistentPreferenceStore extends IPreferenceStore {

    /**
     * Saves the non-default-valued preferences known to this preference
     * store to the file from which they were originally loaded.
     *
     * @exception java.io.IOException if there is a problem saving this store
     */
    public void save() throws IOException;

}
