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package org.jboss.com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior;
import org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream;
/**
* Interface used to manage a group of related IdentifiableFactory instances. Factories can be registered, and invoked
* through a create method, which must be implemented to handle the case of no registered factory appropriately.
*
* @author Ken Cavanaugh
*/
public interface IdentifiableFactoryFinder
{
/**
* If there is a registered factory for id, use it to read an Identifiable from is. Otherwise create an appropriate
* generic container, or throw an error. The type of generic container, or error behavior is a property of the
* implementation.
*/
Identifiable create(int id, InputStream is);
/**
* Register a factory for the given id.
*/
void registerFactory(IdentifiableFactory factory);
}