001/* AdapterActivatorOperations.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.PortableServer; 040 041import org.omg.CORBA.OBJECT_NOT_EXIST; 042 043 044/** 045 * Defines the operations, applicable to the AdapterActivator. 046 * 047 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 048 */ 049public interface AdapterActivatorOperations 050{ 051 /** 052 * This method is invoked when the ORB receives a request for an object 053 * reference that identifies a non-existing target POA, to create it. 054 * The ORB invokes this operation once for each POA that must be created 055 * in order for the target POA to exist. The process remebers creating a 056 * nested folder structure, starting from the ancestor POA closest to the 057 * root POA. The operation is invoked on the adapter activator of 058 * POA that is the parent of the POA that needs to be created. 059 * 060 * @param parent the parent POA, for that the child POA must be created. 061 * @param child_name the name of the child POA that must be created. 062 * 063 * @return true if the operation has successfully created the needed POA, 064 * false that POA cannot be created. In this case, the client will receive 065 * the remote exception ({@link OBJECT_NOT_EXIST}, minor code 2). 066 */ 067 boolean unknown_adapter(POA parent, String child_name); 068}