001 /* IOR.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 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.IOP; 040 041 import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity; 042 043 import java.io.Serializable; 044 045 /** 046 * <p> 047 * The object IOR contains sufficient information for finding local or 048 * remote CORBA object. It also contains additional data like the object 049 * native and supported char sets, URLs to download the required additional 050 * java classes and so on. IOR can define multiple alternative addresses 051 * for the same object or indicate that the object is equal to null. 052 * </p><p> 053 * The IOR is a standard structure, transferred when sending an object with 054 * {@link org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream#write_Object(org.omg.CORBA.Object)} 055 * and receiving with {@link org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream#read_Object()}. 056 * The stringified object references, managed by 057 * {@link org.omg.CORBA.ORB#string_to_object} 058 * and {@link org.omg.CORBA.ORB#object_to_string} are also IORs, where the 059 * initially binary data are encoded as strings using hexadecimal notation. 060 * </p><p> 061 * The IOR is represented as the object repository id, followed 062 * by the sequence of the abstract profiles, each having the integer type 063 * identifier and the followed array of binary data. The empty sequence of 064 * profiles represents a null object, written, for instance, in response 065 * to the call of write_Object(null). 066 * 067 * @specnote GNU Classpath has its own implementation of IOR machinery at 068 * gnu.CORBA.IOR. The reason is that IORs are required from 1.2, but only 069 * in 1.4 the associated classes appear in the public API. 070 */ 071 public final class IOR 072 implements IDLEntity, Serializable 073 { 074 /** 075 * Use serialVersionUID (v1.4) for interoperability. 076 */ 077 private static final long serialVersionUID = 1901439890645554948L; 078 079 /** 080 * The profiles, associated with this IOR reference. The possible 081 * profiles are listed in {@link TaggedProfile} description. 082 */ 083 public TaggedProfile[] profiles; 084 085 /** 086 * The object repository Id. 087 */ 088 public String type_id; 089 090 /** 091 * Create an unitialised instance of IOR profile. 092 * 093 * @specnote The profile will be intialised to the IOR, representing 094 * a null object. 095 */ 096 public IOR() 097 { 098 type_id = ""; 099 profiles = new TaggedProfile[ 0 ]; 100 } 101 102 /** 103 * Create the IOR, initialised with the passed data. 104 * 105 * @param _type_id the repository id for this IOR object. 106 * @param _profiles the array of profiles for this IOR. 107 */ 108 public IOR(String _type_id, TaggedProfile[] _profiles) 109 { 110 type_id = _type_id; 111 profiles = _profiles; 112 } 113 }