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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2010, 2011 Sonatype, Inc.
+ * 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:
+ * Sonatype, Inc. - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.aether.version;
+
+/**
+ * A parsed artifact version.
+ */
+public interface Version
+ extends Comparable<Version>
+{
+
+ /**
+ * Gets the original string representation of the version.
+ *
+ * @return The string representation of the version, never {@code null}.
+ */
+ String toString();
+
+}