- /*
- * @(#)OutputObject.java 1.12 03/12/19
- *
- * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
- * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
- */
-
- package com.sun.corba.se.pept.encoding;
-
- import java.io.IOException;
-
- import com.sun.corba.se.pept.protocol.MessageMediator;
-
- /**
- * <p> An <code>OutputObject</code> is the interface used by the
- * presentation block to give programming language typed data to
- * the encoding block to be encoded and sent in a message. </p>
- *
- * <p> The implementation of an <code>OutputObject</code> contains the
- * encoded data. When the presentation block gives programming language
- * typed data to
- * <code>OutputObject</code>, the
- * implementation of <code>OutputObject</code> is responsible for converting
- * that data to the encoded representation of the data for a particular
- * encoding.</p>
- *
- * <p>A particular <em>encoding</em> would subclass
- * <code>OutputObject</code>. The subclass would provide methods to set
- * the data types appropriate to the presentation block (e.g., simple
- * types such as int or boolean, all the way to any type derived from
- * <code>java.io.Serializable</code>.).</p>
- *
- * <p>Note: the protocol block may also use the <code>OutputObject</code> to
- * set header metadata.</p>
- *
- * @author Harold Carr
- */
- public interface OutputObject
- {
- public void setMessageMediator(MessageMediator messageMediator);
-
- public MessageMediator getMessageMediator();
-
- public void close() throws IOException;
- }
-
- // End of file.