diff -r 7c3b884eb33b -r 2ccd3660a736 core/com.nokia.carbide.discovery.ui/src/com/nokia/carbide/internal/discovery/ui/wizard/Streamer.java
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/core/com.nokia.carbide.discovery.ui/src/com/nokia/carbide/internal/discovery/ui/wizard/Streamer.java	Wed Aug 11 15:25:32 2010 -0500
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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description: 
+*
+*/
+package com.nokia.carbide.internal.discovery.ui.wizard;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.text.MessageFormat;
+import java.util.Collection;
+
+import com.nokia.cpp.internal.api.utils.core.Pair;
+
+/**
+ * Serializes feature infos and repository URIs into output stream as XML
+ * Example serialized single test connection:
+ * 
+ * <blockquote><pre>
+ *&lt;featuresConfiguration version="1"&gt;
+ *	&lt;autoImportOriginalVersions value="false"/&gt;
+ *	&lt;repository uri="http://cdn.symbian.org/carbide/updates/3.0/discovery"/&gt;
+ *	&lt;feature id="com.nokia.example.feature.group" version="1.0.0"/&gt;
+ *&lt;/featuresConfiguration&gt;
+ * </pre></blockquote>
+ */
+class Streamer {
+
+	private static final String CURRENT_VERSION = "1"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	
+	private static final String XML_HEADER = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n\n"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String FEATURES_CONFIG_START = "<featuresConfiguration version=\"" + CURRENT_VERSION + "\">\n"; //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
+	private static final String FEATURES_CONFIG_END = "</featuresConfiguration>\n"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String AUTO_IMPORT_ORIGINAL_VERSION_FMT = "\t<autoImportOriginalVersions value=\"{0}\"/>\n"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String REPOSITORY_FMT = "\t<repository uri=\"{0}\"/>\n"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+	private static final String FEATURE_FMT = "\t<feature id=\"{0}\" version=\"{1}\"/>\n"; //$NON-NLS-1$
+
+	public static void writeToXML(OutputStream os, Collection<URI> repositories, Collection<FeatureInfo> featureInfos) throws IOException {
+		os.write(XML_HEADER.getBytes());
+		os.write(FEATURES_CONFIG_START.getBytes());
+		
+		// write auto-import original versions
+		String originalVersionElement = MessageFormat.format(AUTO_IMPORT_ORIGINAL_VERSION_FMT, false);
+		os.write(originalVersionElement.getBytes());
+
+		// write the repositories
+		for (URI uri : repositories) {
+			String repositoryElement = MessageFormat.format(REPOSITORY_FMT, uri);
+			os.write(repositoryElement.getBytes());
+		}
+		
+		// write the featureInfos
+		for (FeatureInfo info : featureInfos) {
+			String featureElement = MessageFormat.format(FEATURE_FMT, info.getId(), info.getVersion());
+			os.write(featureElement.getBytes());
+		}
+		
+		os.write(FEATURES_CONFIG_END.getBytes());
+		os.close();
+	}
+	
+	public static Pair<Collection<URI>, Collection<FeatureInfo>> readFromXML(InputStream is) {
+		
+		return null; // TODO
+	}
+}