001 /* CurrentOperations.java --
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037
038
039 package org.omg.PortableServer;
040
041 import org.omg.PortableServer.CurrentPackage.NoContext;
042
043 /**
044 * Provides the Id of the object currently being served and POA
045 * to that this object is connected. Both Id and POA can be much
046 * simpler obtained from the servant by {@link Servant#_object_id() }
047 * and {@link Servant#_poa()} that use the CurrentOperations indirectly.
048 *
049 * As long as the ORB reference is still available, the current information
050 * is available via {@link Current} that is returned by
051 * ORB.resolve_initial_references("POACurrent"). To support this call,
052 * the ORB maintains the thread to invocation data map for all calls that
053 * are currently being processed.
054 *
055 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
056 */
057 public interface CurrentOperations
058 extends org.omg.CORBA.CurrentOperations
059 {
060 /**
061 * Returns the Id of the object currently being served. The returned
062 * value is also correct if the calling code is running is several
063 * paralled threads.
064 *
065 * @return the Id of the object that is currently being served by this
066 * thread.
067 */
068 byte[] get_object_id()
069 throws NoContext;
070
071 /**
072 * Returns POA to that the object currently being served is connected.
073 * The returned value is also correct if the calling code is running is several
074 * paralled threads.
075 *
076 * @return the Id of the object that is currently being served by this
077 * thread.
078 */
079 POA get_POA()
080 throws NoContext;
081 }