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/* ValueBase.java --
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Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU Classpath.
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GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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any later version.
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GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
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02110-1301 USA.
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Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
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making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and
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conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole
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combination.
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As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
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permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
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executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
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modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under
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terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked
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independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
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module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from
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or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend
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this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
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obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
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exception statement from your version. */
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package org.omg.CORBA.portable;
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/**
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* ValueBase is the basic interface for all CORBA value data types. A value
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* type is something between CORBA structure and CORBA object. Like CORBA
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* object, it can have methods, supporting some IDL-defined interface.
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* However, like structures, they are local and passed by value,
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* not by IOR reference.
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*
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* Unlike CORBA objects, values are not connected to any ORB by
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* default; they hanlde the implemented functionality locally. The classes,
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* required to implement that functionality, should either be pre-defined
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* or they can be downloaded from the certain URL, defined as CodeBase.
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*
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* The value types can have both public and private members. They support
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* inheritance. Value types can also be abstract.
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*
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* For transferring the value type data via stream, it must implement either
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* {@link CustomValue} or {@link StreamableValue}.
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*
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* @since 1.3
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*
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* @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
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*/
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public interface ValueBase
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extends IDLEntity
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{
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/**
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* Get the truncatable repository ids.
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*
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* @return the array of repository ids, defining the base types, to that
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* basic types this value base can be truncated.
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*/
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String[] _truncatable_ids();
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}
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