01: /*
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04: * as indicated by the @author tags. See the copyright.txt file in the
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07: * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
08: * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
09: * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
10: * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
11: *
12: * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
13: * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14: * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
15: * Lesser General Public License for more details.
16: *
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20: * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org.
21: */
22: package javax.ejb;
23:
24: import java.rmi.RemoteException;
25:
26: /**
27: * The Handle interface is implemented by all EJB object handles. A handle
28: * is an abstraction of a network reference to an EJB object. A handle is
29: * intended to be used as a "robust" persistent reference to an EJB object.
30: */
31: public interface Handle extends java.io.Serializable {
32:
33: /**
34: * Obtains the EJB object reference represented by this handle.
35: *
36: * @return The EJB object reference represented by this handle.
37: * @exception java.rmi.RemoteException - The EJB object could not be obtained because of a
38: * system-level failure.
39: */
40: public EJBObject getEJBObject() throws RemoteException;
41: }
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