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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.orbutil.threadpool;


public interface ThreadPoolChooser 
{
    /**
     * This method is used to return an instance of ThreadPool based on the 
     * strategy/policy implemented in the ThreadPoolChooser from the set of
     * ThreadPools allowed to be used by the ORB. Typically, the set of 
     * ThreadPools would be specified by passing the threadpool-ids
     * configured in the ORB element of the domain.xml of the appserver.
     */
    public ThreadPool getThreadPool();

    /**
     * This method is used to return an instance of ThreadPool that is obtained
     * by using the id argument passed to it. This method will be used in 
     * situations where the threadpool id is known to the caller e.g. by the
     * connection object or looking at the high order bits of the request id
     */
    public ThreadPool getThreadPool(int id);

    /**
     * This method is a convenience method to see what threadpool-ids are being
     * used by the ThreadPoolChooser
     */
    public String[] getThreadPoolIds();
}