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25:
26: package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior;
27:
28: import org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream;
29:
30: /** Interface used to manage a group of related IdentifiableFactory instances.
31: * Factories can be registered, and invoked through a create method, which
32: * must be implemented to handle the case of no registered factory
33: * appropriately.
34: * @author Ken Cavanaugh
35: */
36: public interface IdentifiableFactoryFinder {
37: /** If there is a registered factory for id, use it to
38: * read an Identifiable from is. Otherwise create an
39: * appropriate generic container, or throw an error.
40: * The type of generic container, or error behavior is
41: * a property of the implementation.
42: */
43: Identifiable create(int id, InputStream is);
44:
45: /** Register a factory for the given id.
46: */
47: void registerFactory(IdentifiableFactory factory);
48: }
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