001 /* Parameter.java --
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037
038
039 package org.omg.Dynamic;
040
041 import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
042 import org.omg.CORBA.ParameterMode;
043 import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;
044
045 import java.io.Serializable;
046
047 /**
048 * When representing the information about a request,
049 * defines a one of the arguments for the operation being invoked.
050 *
051 * @see org.omg.PortableInterceptor.RequestInfoOperations#arguments()
052 *
053 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
054 */
055 public final class Parameter
056 implements IDLEntity, Serializable
057 {
058 /**
059 * Use serialVersionUID (v1.4) for interoperability.
060 */
061 private static final long serialVersionUID = 892191606993734699L;
062
063 /**
064 * The {@link Any}, holding the value of the parameter.
065 */
066 public Any argument;
067
068 /**
069 * The mode of the parameter. Specifies if the parameter is used
070 * to pass the value to the method, to return the value from the
071 * method or for both of these purposes.
072 */
073 public ParameterMode mode;
074
075 /**
076 * Create the uninitialised instance.
077 */
078 public Parameter()
079 {
080 }
081
082 /**
083 * Create an instance, initialising field to the passed values.
084 */
085 public Parameter(Any an_argument, ParameterMode a_mode)
086 {
087 argument = an_argument;
088 mode = a_mode;
089 }
090 }