Source for org.omg.PortableInterceptor.PolicyFactoryOperations

   1: /* PolicyFactoryOperations.java --
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  39: package org.omg.PortableInterceptor;
  40: 
  41: import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
  42: import org.omg.CORBA.Policy;
  43: import org.omg.CORBA.PolicyError;
  44: 
  45: /**
  46:  * A service implementation can register policy factory during ORB initialization
  47:  * for creating the service-specific policies. This factory then will be
  48:  * invoked form {@link org.omg.CORBA.ORB#create_policy(int, Any)}.
  49:  *
  50:  * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
  51:  *
  52:  * @see org.omg.CORBA.ORB#create_policy
  53:  * @see ORBInitInfoOperations#register_policy_factory
  54:  */
  55: public interface PolicyFactoryOperations
  56: {
  57:   /**
  58:    * Create and return the policy of the given type, having the given value.
  59:    *
  60:    * @param policy_type the type of the policy being created
  61:    * @param policy_value the value of the policy, wrapped in {@link Any}.
  62:    * Depending from the policy, the Any can hold various values,
  63:    * including complex data structures.
  64:    *
  65:    * @return the created policy.
  66:    */
  67:   Policy create_policy(int policy_type, Any policy_value)
  68:     throws PolicyError;
  69: }