Source for org.omg.DynamicAny.DynAny

   1: /* DynAny.java --
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  36: 
  37: 
  38: package org.omg.DynamicAny;
  39: 
  40: import java.io.Serializable;
  41: 
  42: import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
  43: import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;
  44: 
  45: /**
  46:  * <p>
  47:  * The DynAny interface provides possibility to access the components of the
  48:  * CORBA object, stored inside the {@link Any}. The DynAny and derived classes
  49:  * additionally allows to access the members of the sequence, structure, union
  50:  * and get the data about enumeration, value type and CORBA <code>fixed</code>
  51:  * without knowing the exact type at the run time. The returned members are also
  52:  * wrapped into DynAny objects, allowing them to be the nested structures.
  53:  * </p>
  54:  * <p>
  55:  * The DynAny's are usually produced by {@link DynAnyFactory}. This factory is
  56:  * obtained from the ORB: <br>
  57:  * <code>
  58:  * DynAnyFactory f = DynAnyFactoryHelper.narrow
  59:  *   (orb.resolve_initial_references("DynAnyFactory"));
  60:  * </code>
  61:  * </p>
  62:  * <p>
  63:  * DynAny can also be returned by a method, invoked on another DynAny.
  64:  * </p>
  65:  *
  66:  * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
  67:  */
  68: public interface DynAny
  69:   extends DynAnyOperations, IDLEntity, org.omg.CORBA.Object, Serializable
  70: {