DynamicStub.java

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package org.jboss.com.sun.corba.se.spi.presentation.rmi;

import java.rmi.RemoteException;

import org.omg.CORBA.ORB;
import org.omg.CORBA.portable.Delegate;
import org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream;

/**
 * Interface used to support dynamically generated stubs. This supplies some methods that are found in
 * org.omg.CORBA.portable.ObjectImpl that are not available in org.omg.CORBA.Object.
 */
public interface DynamicStub extends org.omg.CORBA.Object
{
    /**
     * Similar to ObjectImpl._set_delegate
     */
    void setDelegate(Delegate delegate);

    /**
     * Similar to ObjectImpl._get_delegate
     */
    Delegate getDelegate();

    /**
     * Similar to ObjectImpl._orb()
     */
    ORB getORB();

    /**
     * Similar to ObjectImpl._ids
     */
    String[] getTypeIds();

    /**
     * Connect this dynamic stub to an ORB. Just as in standard RMI-IIOP, this is required after a dynamic stub is
     * deserialized from an ObjectInputStream. It is not needed when unmarshalling from a
     * org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream.
     */
    void connect(ORB orb) throws RemoteException;

    boolean isLocal();

    OutputStream request(String operation, boolean responseExpected);
}