Source for org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.Delegate

   1: /* Delegate.java --
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  39: package org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable;
  40: 
  41: /**
  42:  * Extends the previous version of the Delegate by one additional method,
  43:  * defined in CORBA 2_3 .
  44:  *
  45:  * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
  46:  */
  47: public abstract class Delegate
  48:   extends org.omg.CORBA.portable.Delegate
  49: {
  50:   /**
  51:    * Returns the codebase for the provided object reference.
  52:    * A codebase is a location information (for instance, URL), specifying,
  53:    * where the missing parts of the object code can be downloaded. This
  54:    * is important for the value type objects that handle they method calls
  55:    * locally and hence must have the local copy of the implementing code.
  56:    *
  57:    * This method must be overridden to get functionality, the default method
  58:    * always returns an empty string.
  59:    *
  60:    * @return normally, an agreed location information, specifying, where
  61:    * the supporting code (like java classes) can be found.
  62:    */
  63:   public String get_codebase(org.omg.CORBA.Object self)
  64:   {
  65:     return "";
  66:   }