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037    
038    
039    package org.omg.CORBA_2_3;
040    
041    import javax.rmi.CORBA.Tie;
042    
043    import org.omg.CORBA.BAD_PARAM;
044    import org.omg.CORBA.NO_IMPLEMENT;
045    import org.omg.CORBA.portable.ValueFactory;
046    
047    /**
048     * This class should provide the {@link org.omg.CORBA.ORB}) ORB extensions,
049     * defined in the OMG CORBA version 2.3 specification. However in the
050     * Sun's API specification is written that this functionality is not
051     * implemented at least at least till 1.4 inclusive.
052     *
053     * @author Audrius Meskauskas (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
054     */
055    public abstract class ORB
056      extends org.omg.CORBA.ORB
057    {
058      /**
059       * Should return a defintion of the value type as described
060       * in the interface repository.
061       *
062       * @param repository_id a value type repository id.
063       *
064       * @return never
065       * @throws BAD_PARAM never
066       * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
067       *
068       * @see org.omg.CORBA.portable.ValueBase
069       */
070      public org.omg.CORBA.Object get_value_def(String repository_id)
071                                         throws BAD_PARAM
072      {
073        throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
074      }
075    
076      /**
077       * This should register the given value factory under the given
078       * repository id.
079       *
080       * @param repository_id a repository id
081       *
082       * @return never
083       * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
084       */
085      public ValueFactory register_value_factory(String repository_id,
086                                                 ValueFactory factory
087                                                )
088      {
089        throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
090      }
091    
092      /**
093       * This should unregister the given value factory under the given
094       * repository id.
095       *
096       * @param repository_id a repository id
097       *
098       * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
099       */
100      public void unregister_value_factory(String repository_id)
101      {
102        throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
103      }
104    
105      /**
106       * This should find a suitable value factory to create an instance
107       * of the value type when is being read (unmarshaled) from the
108       * stream.
109       *
110       * @param repository_id a repository id
111       *
112       * @return never
113       * @throws NO_IMPLEMENT, always.
114       */
115      public ValueFactory lookup_value_factory(String repository_id)
116      {
117        throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
118      }
119    
120      /**
121       * This method is called by RMI-IIOP {@link Tie#orb(ORB)},
122       * passing <code>this</code> as parameter. The ORB will try to connect
123       * that tie as one of its objects.
124       */
125      public void set_delegate(java.lang.Object wrapper)
126      {
127        throw new NO_IMPLEMENT();
128      }
129    }