gomp-20050608-branch/libjava/classpath/org/omg/PortableServer/CurrentOperations.java

   1 /* CurrentOperations.java --
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  37
  38
  39 package org.omg.PortableServer;
  40
  41 import org.omg.PortableServer.CurrentPackage.NoContext;
  42
  43 /**
  44  * Provides the Id of the object currently being served and POA
  45  * to that this object is connected. Both Id and POA can be much
  46  * simpler obtained from the servant by {@link Servant#_object_id() }
  47  * and {@link Servant#_poa()} that use the CurrentOperations indirectly.
  48  *
  49  * As long as the ORB reference is still available, the current information
  50  * is available via {@link Current} that is returned by
  51  * ORB.resolve_initial_references("POACurrent"). To support this call,
  52  * the ORB maintains the thread to invocation data map for all calls that
  53  * are currently being processed.
  54  *
  55  * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
  56  */
  57 public interface CurrentOperations
  58   extends org.omg.CORBA.CurrentOperations
  59 {
  60   /**
  61    * Returns the Id of the object currently being served. The returned
  62    * value is also correct if the calling code is running is several
  63    * paralled threads.
  64    *
  65    * @return the Id of the object that is currently being served by this
  66    * thread.
  67    */
  68   byte[] get_object_id()
  69                 throws NoContext;
  70
  71   /**
  72    * Returns POA to that the object currently being served is connected.
  73    * The returned value is also correct if the calling code is running is several
  74    * paralled threads.
  75    *
  76    * @return the Id of the object that is currently being served by this
  77    * thread.
  78    */
  79   POA get_POA()
  80        throws NoContext;
  81 }