001/* ORB.java --
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037
038
039package org.omg.CORBA_2_3;
040
041import javax.rmi.CORBA.Tie;
042
043import org.omg.CORBA.BAD_PARAM;
044import org.omg.CORBA.NO_IMPLEMENT;
045import org.omg.CORBA.portable.ValueFactory;
046
047/**
048 * This class should provide the {@link org.omg.CORBA.ORB}) ORB extensions,
049 * defined in the OMG CORBA version 2.3 specification. However in the
050 * Sun's API specification is written that this functionality is not
051 * implemented at least at least till 1.4 inclusive.
052 *
053 * @author Audrius Meskauskas (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
054 */
055public abstract class ORB
056  extends org.omg.CORBA.ORB
057{
058  /**
059   * Should return a defintion of the value type as described
060   * in the interface repository.
061   *
062   * @param repository_id a value type repository id.
063   *
064   * @return never
065   * @throws BAD_PARAM never
066   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
067   *
068   * @see org.omg.CORBA.portable.ValueBase
069   */
070  public org.omg.CORBA.Object get_value_def(String repository_id)
071                                     throws BAD_PARAM
072  {
073    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
074  }
075
076  /**
077   * This should register the given value factory under the given
078   * repository id.
079   *
080   * @param repository_id a repository id
081   *
082   * @return never
083   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
084   */
085  public ValueFactory register_value_factory(String repository_id,
086                                             ValueFactory factory
087                                            )
088  {
089    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
090  }
091
092  /**
093   * This should unregister the given value factory under the given
094   * repository id.
095   *
096   * @param repository_id a repository id
097   *
098   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
099   */
100  public void unregister_value_factory(String repository_id)
101  {
102    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
103  }
104
105  /**
106   * This should find a suitable value factory to create an instance
107   * of the value type when is being read (unmarshaled) from the
108   * stream.
109   *
110   * @param repository_id a repository id
111   *
112   * @return never
113   * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
114   */
115  public ValueFactory lookup_value_factory(String repository_id)
116  {
117    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
118  }
119
120  /**
121   * This method is called by RMI-IIOP {@link Tie#orb(ORB)},
122   * passing <code>this</code> as parameter. The ORB will try to connect
123   * that tie as one of its objects.
124   */
125  public void set_delegate(java.lang.Object wrapper)
126  {
127    throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
128  }
129}