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package com.sun.corba.se.impl.oa.toa ;
import com.sun.corba.se.spi.oa.ObjectAdapter ;
/** The Transient Object Adapter is used for standard RMI-IIOP and Java-IDL
* (legacy JDK 1.2) object implementations. Its protocol for managing objects is very
* simple: just connect and disconnect. There is only a single TOA instance per ORB,
* and its lifetime is the same as the ORB. The TOA instance is always ready to receive
* messages except when the ORB is shutting down.
*/
public interface TOA extends ObjectAdapter {
/** Connect the given servant to the ORB by allocating a transient object key
* and creating an IOR and object reference using the current factory.
*/
void connect( org.omg.CORBA.Object servant ) ;
/** Disconnect the object from this ORB.
*/
void disconnect( org.omg.CORBA.Object obj ) ;
}