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package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior ;

import org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream ;

import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.Identifiable ;

/** Factory interface for creating Identifiables.
 */
public interface IdentifiableFactory {
    /** Return the id of this factory, which is the id of the result
     * of any create call.
     */
    public int getId() ;

    /** Construct the appropriate Identifiable object with the
     * given id from the InputStream is.
     */
    public Identifiable create( InputStream in ) ;
}