Source for org.omg.PortableServer.POA

   1: /* POA.java --
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  38: 
  39: package org.omg.PortableServer;
  40: 
  41: import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;
  42: 
  43: /**
  44:  * <p>
  45:  * The Portable Object Adapter (POA) provides more control on the request
  46:  * processing than it is possible when connecting objects directly to the
  47:  * ORB. For details, see the general description of the
  48:  * <code>org.omg.PortableServer</code> package.
  49:  * </p><p>
  50:  * The operations, supported by POA are defined
  51:  * separately in {@link POAOperations}. In the simpliest case, the servant
  52:  * implementation is connected to POA by
  53:  * {@link POAOperations#servant_to_reference}, the returned object being a
  54:  * target of remote and local invocations, despite the numerous other
  55:  * strategies are possible.
  56:  * </p>
  57:  *
  58:  * @see org.omg.CORBA.ORB#resolve_initial_references
  59:  * @see POAOperations#servant_to_reference
  60:  *
  61:  * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
  62:  */
  63: public interface POA
  64:   extends POAOperations, IDLEntity, org.omg.CORBA.Object
  65: {