001/* POAManager.java --
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037
038
039package org.omg.PortableServer;
040
041import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;
042
043/**
044 * <p>
045 * A POA manager is associated with one or more POAs and provides means
046 * to regulate they activity. Using manage, it is possible to force
047 * requests for those POAs to be queued or discarded or have those POAs
048 * deactivated. The manager can turn POAs to and from holding,
049 * active and discarding states, but the incative state is irreversible.
050 * </p>
051 * <p>
052 * The manager of the ORBs root POA can be obtained by resolving initial
053 * reference "RootPOAManager".
054 * </p>
055 *
056 * @see POAManagerOperations
057 *
058 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
059 */
060public interface POAManager
061  extends POAManagerOperations, IDLEntity, org.omg.CORBA.Object
062{
063}