001/* InterceptorOperations.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005 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.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 */ 056public 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}