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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.orb ;
import java.applet.Applet ;
import java.util.Properties ;
import java.util.Vector ;
/** Interface for collecting all sources of ORB configuration properties
* into a single properties object. A PropertyParser is needed so that
* the set of property names of interest is known.
*/
public interface DataCollector {
/** Return true iff this DataCollector was created from
* applet data.
*/
boolean isApplet() ;
/** Return true iff the local host and ORB initial host are the same.
* This is provided to avoid exposing the local host in insecure
* contexts.
*/
boolean initialHostIsLocal() ;
/** Set the parser which is used to obtain property names.
* This must be called before getProperties
* may be called. It may be called multiple times if different
* sets of properties are needed for the same data sources.
*/
void setParser( PropertyParser parser ) ;
/** Return the consolidated property information to be used
* for ORB configuration. Note that -ORBInitRef arguments are
* handled specially: all -ORBInitRef name=value arguments are
* converted into ( org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitRef.name, value )
* mappings in the resulting properties. Also, -ORBInitialServices
* is handled specially in applet mode: they are converted from
* relative to absolute URLs.
* @raises IllegalStateException if setPropertyNames has not
* been called.
*/
Properties getProperties() ;
}