CorbaContactInfoListFactory.java revision 608:7e06bf1dcb09 
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25
26package com.sun.corba.se.spi.transport ;
27
28import com.sun.corba.se.spi.transport.CorbaContactInfoList ;
29
30import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.IOR ;
31import com.sun.corba.se.spi.orb.ORB;
32
33/** Interface used to create a ContactInfoList from an IOR, as required
34 * for supporting CORBA semantics using the DCS framework.  This is a
35 * natural correspondence since an IOR contains the information for
36 * contacting one or more communication endpoints that can be used to
37 * invoke a method on an object, along with the necessary information
38 * on particular transports, encodings, and protocols to use.
39 * Note that the actual implementation may support more than one
40 * IOR in the case of GIOP with Location Forward messages.
41 */
42public interface CorbaContactInfoListFactory {
43    /**
44     * This will be called after the no-arg constructor before
45     * create is called.
46     */
47    public void setORB(ORB orb);
48
49    public CorbaContactInfoList create( IOR ior ) ;
50}
51