/*
 * @(#)ObjectKeyFactory.java	1.3 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.spi.ior;

import org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.InputStream ;

import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.ObjectKey ;
import com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior.ObjectKeyTemplate ;

/** Construct ObjectKey and ObjectKeyTemplate instances from their
 * CDR-marshalled representation.
 */
public interface ObjectKeyFactory 
{
    /** Create an ObjectKey from its octet sequence representation.
     */
    ObjectKey create( byte[] key ) ;

    /** Create an ObjectKeyTemplate from its representation
     * in an InputStream.
     */
    ObjectKeyTemplate createTemplate( InputStream is ) ;
}