Source code: org/omg/DynamicAny/DynAny.java
1 /* DynAny.java --
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36
37
38 package org.omg.DynamicAny;
39
40 import java.io.Serializable;
41
42 import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
43 import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;
44
45 /**
46 * <p>
47 * The DynAny interface provides possibility to access the components of the
48 * CORBA object, stored inside the {@link Any}. The DynAny and derived classes
49 * additionally allows to access the members of the sequence, structure, union
50 * and get the data about enumeration, value type and CORBA <code>fixed</code>
51 * without knowing the exact type at the run time. The returned members are also
52 * wrapped into DynAny objects, allowing them to be the nested structures.
53 * </p>
54 * <p>
55 * The DynAny's are usually produced by {@link DynAnyFactory}. This factory is
56 * obtained from the ORB: <br>
57 * <code>
58 * DynAnyFactory f = DynAnyFactoryHelper.narrow
59 * (orb.resolve_initial_references("DynAnyFactory"));
60 * </code>
61 * </p>
62 * <p>
63 * DynAny can also be returned by a method, invoked on another DynAny.
64 * </p>
65 *
66 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
67 */
68 public interface DynAny
69 extends DynAnyOperations, IDLEntity, org.omg.CORBA.Object, Serializable
70 {
71 }