001/* Parameter.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package org.omg.Dynamic; 040 041import org.omg.CORBA.Any; 042import org.omg.CORBA.ParameterMode; 043import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity; 044 045import java.io.Serializable; 046 047/** 048 * When representing the information about a request, 049 * defines a one of the arguments for the operation being invoked. 050 * 051 * @see org.omg.PortableInterceptor.RequestInfoOperations#arguments() 052 * 053 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 054 */ 055public final class Parameter 056 implements IDLEntity, Serializable 057{ 058 /** 059 * Use serialVersionUID (v1.4) for interoperability. 060 */ 061 private static final long serialVersionUID = 892191606993734699L; 062 063 /** 064 * The {@link Any}, holding the value of the parameter. 065 */ 066 public Any argument; 067 068 /** 069 * The mode of the parameter. Specifies if the parameter is used 070 * to pass the value to the method, to return the value from the 071 * method or for both of these purposes. 072 */ 073 public ParameterMode mode; 074 075 /** 076 * Create the uninitialised instance. 077 */ 078 public Parameter() 079 { 080 } 081 082 /** 083 * Create an instance, initialising field to the passed values. 084 */ 085 public Parameter(Any an_argument, ParameterMode a_mode) 086 { 087 argument = an_argument; 088 mode = a_mode; 089 } 090}