001 /* InterceptorOperations.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039 package org.omg.PortableInterceptor; 040 041 042 /** 043 * Defines operations, applicable for all types of {@link Interceptor}. 044 * The the derived interfaces define additional operations for they 045 * specific functionality. 046 * 047 * Portable Interceptors are hooks into the ORB through which ORB services can 048 * intercept the normal flow of execution in creation of IOR, sending request, 049 * receiving request and returning the reply. 050 * 051 * See {@link org.omg.PortableInterceptor} for more details about the possible 052 * interceptors and how to register them within the ORB. 053 * 054 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 055 */ 056 public interface InterceptorOperations 057 { 058 /** 059 * This method is called when orb is being destroyed and destroys 060 * the interceptor. The ORB calls this method after completing all 061 * incoming requests. The method body should not invoke methods on other 062 * object, belonging to ORB being destoryed, as in this stage it is no 063 * longer capable to act as server. It is still, however, capable 064 * to act as a client, permitting remote invocations on other objects. 065 */ 066 void destroy(); 067 068 /** 069 * All interceptors of the same type, registered on the single ORB, must 070 * either have different names or be anonymous. The name of the anonymous 071 * interceptor is an empty string. The ORB supports multiple anonymous 072 * interceptors of the same type. 073 * 074 * @return the name of the interceptor. 075 */ 076 String name(); 077 }