DataCollector.java revision 673:6b017d166ac2 
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25package com.sun.corba.se.spi.orb ;
26
27import java.applet.Applet ;
28import java.util.Properties ;
29import java.util.Vector ;
30
31/** Interface for collecting all sources of ORB configuration properties
32 * into a single properties object.   A PropertyParser is needed so that
33 * the set of property names of interest is known.
34 */
35public interface DataCollector {
36    /** Return true iff this DataCollector was created from
37     * applet data.
38     */
39    boolean isApplet() ;
40
41    /** Return true iff the local host and ORB initial host are the same.
42    * This is provided to avoid exposing the local host in insecure
43    * contexts.
44    */
45    boolean initialHostIsLocal() ;
46
47    /** Set the parser which is used to obtain property names.
48     * This must be called before getProperties
49     * may be called.  It may be called multiple times if different
50     * sets of properties are needed for the same data sources.
51     */
52    void setParser( PropertyParser parser ) ;
53
54    /** Return the consolidated property information to be used
55     * for ORB configuration.  Note that -ORBInitRef arguments are
56     * handled specially: all -ORBInitRef name=value arguments are
57     * converted into ( org.omg.CORBA.ORBInitRef.name, value )
58     * mappings in the resulting properties.  Also, -ORBInitialServices
59     * is handled specially in applet mode: they are converted from
60     * relative to absolute URLs.
61     * @throws IllegalStateException if setPropertyNames has not
62     * been called.
63     */
64    Properties getProperties() ;
65}
66