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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2014, United States Government, as represented by the
+ * Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * The Java Pathfinder core (jpf-core) platform is licensed under the
+ * Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
+ * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. 
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package gov.nasa.jpf;
+
+import gov.nasa.jpf.search.SearchState;
+import gov.nasa.jpf.vm.RestorableVMState;
+
+/**
+ * abstraction of JPF execution state that can be queried and stored by
+ * listeners 
+ */
+public class State {
+  RestorableVMState     vmState;
+  SearchState searchState;
+  boolean     hasSuccessor; // <2do> pcm - do we really need this?
+  boolean     isNew;
+
+  public State (boolean isNew, boolean hasSuccessor, SearchState searchState, 
+                RestorableVMState vmState) {
+    this.isNew = isNew;
+    this.hasSuccessor = hasSuccessor;
+    this.searchState = searchState;
+    this.vmState = vmState;
+  }
+
+  public boolean isNew () {
+    return isNew;
+  }
+
+  public SearchState getSearchState () {
+    return searchState;
+  }
+
+  public RestorableVMState getVMState () {
+    return vmState;
+  }
+
+  public boolean hasSuccessor () {
+    return hasSuccessor;
+  }
+
+  public void restore () {
+  }
+}