1. /*

  2.  * @(#)ClientGIOP.java	1.22 03/01/23

  3.  *

  4.  * Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.

  5.  * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.

  6.  */

  7. 

  8. package com.sun.corba.se.internal.core;

  9. 

  10. import com.sun.corba.se.internal.corba.ClientDelegate;

  11. import com.sun.corba.se.internal.core.IOR;

  12. import com.sun.corba.se.internal.iiop.Connection ;

  13. 

  14. /**

  15.  * ClientGIOP contains the client-side GIOP APIs. There can be

  16.  * multiple implementations of this GIOP transport.

  17.  */

  18. public interface ClientGIOP {

  19.     /* (KMC) I have removed the createRequest APIs.  The problem was that

  20.      * this API required the ServiceContext at too early a stage in the 

  21.      * process of constructing a request, since transport level information

  22.      * like the connection and the request ID is required for constructing the

  23.      * ServiceContext.  All of the control logic is now in the subcontract.

  24.      */

  25. 

  26.     /** Get a Connection that can be used to transmit a request.

  27.      */

  28.     public Connection getConnection( IOR ior ) ;

  29. 

  30.     /**

  31.      * Allocate a new request id.

  32.      */

  33.     public int allocateRequestId();

  34. 

  35. 

  36.     /**

  37.      * Send a locate request.

  38.      */

  39.     public IOR locate(IOR ior);

  40. }

  41.