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014
015package org.apache.hivemind.test;
016
017import org.easymock.AbstractMatcher;
018
019/**
020 * Base class that bridges from EasyMock's {@link org.easymock.AbstractMatcher} to HiveMind's
021 * {@link org.apache.hivemind.test.ArgumentMatcher}. Since all the {@link ArgumentMatcher}
022 *  implementations extend this class, each can be used with {@link AbstractArgumentMatcher}
023 * &nbsp;to compare a <em>single</em> argument, or on its own to match <em>all</em> arguments.
024 * 
025 * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship
026 * @since 1.1
027 */
028public abstract class AbstractArgumentMatcher extends AbstractMatcher implements ArgumentMatcher
029{
030
031    protected boolean argumentMatches(Object expected, Object actual)
032    {
033        return compareArguments(expected, actual);
034    }
035}