Source for org.omg.CORBA.portable.ValueBase

   1: /* ValueBase.java --
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  39: package org.omg.CORBA.portable;
  40: 
  41: 
  42: /**
  43:  * ValueBase is the basic interface for all CORBA value data types. A value
  44:  * type is something between CORBA structure and CORBA object. Like CORBA
  45:  * object, it can have methods, supporting some IDL-defined interface.
  46:  * However, like structures, they are local and passed by value,
  47:  * not by IOR reference.
  48:  *
  49:  * Unlike CORBA objects, values are not connected to any ORB by
  50:  * default; they hanlde the implemented functionality locally. The classes,
  51:  * required to implement that functionality, should either be pre-defined
  52:  * or they can be downloaded from the certain URL, defined as CodeBase.
  53:  *
  54:  * The value types can have both public and private members. They support
  55:  * inheritance. Value types can also be abstract.
  56:  *
  57:  * For transferring the value type data via stream, it must implement either
  58:  * {@link CustomValue} or {@link StreamableValue}.
  59:  *
  60:  * @since 1.3
  61:  *
  62:  * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
  63:  */
  64: public interface ValueBase
  65:   extends IDLEntity
  66: {
  67:   /**
  68:    * Get the truncatable repository ids.
  69:    *
  70:    * @return the array of repository ids, defining the base types, to that
  71:    * basic types this value base can be truncated.
  72:    */
  73:   String[] _truncatable_ids();