gomp-20050608-branch/libjava/classpath/org/omg/PortableInterceptor/PolicyFactoryOperations.java

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  37
  38
  39 package org.omg.PortableInterceptor;
  40
  41 import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
  42 import org.omg.CORBA.Policy;
  43 import org.omg.CORBA.PolicyError;
  44
  45 /**
  46  * A service implementation can register policy factory during ORB initialization
  47  * for creating the service-specific policies. This factory then will be
  48  * invoked form {@link org.omg.CORBA.ORB#create_policy(int, Any)}.
  49  *
  50  * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
  51  *
  52  * @see org.omg.CORBA.ORB#create_policy
  53  * @see ORBInitInfoOperations#register_policy_factory
  54  */
  55 public interface PolicyFactoryOperations
  56 {
  57   /**
  58    * Create and return the policy of the given type, having the given value.
  59    *
  60    * @param policy_type the type of the policy being created
  61    * @param policy_value the value of the policy, wrapped in {@link Any}.
  62    * Depending from the policy, the Any can hold various values,
  63    * including complex data structures.
  64    *
  65    * @return the created policy.
  66    */
  67   Policy create_policy(int policy_type, Any policy_value)
  68     throws PolicyError;
  69 }