1. package org.omg.IOP;

  2. 

  3. 

  4. /**

  5. * org/omg/IOP/Codec.java .

  6. * Generated by the IDL-to-Java compiler (portable), version "3.2"

  7. * from ../../../../src/share/classes/org/omg/PortableInterceptor/IOP.idl

  8. * Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:28:42 AM GMT

  9. */

  10. 

  11. 

  12. /**

  13.    * The formats of IOR components and service context data used by ORB 

  14.    * services are often defined as CDR encapsulations encoding instances 

  15.    * of IDL defined data types. The <code>Codec</code> provides a mechanism 

  16.    * to transfer these components between their IDL data types and their CDR 

  17.    * encapsulation representations. 

  18.    * <p>

  19.    * A <code>Codec</code> is obtained from the <code>CodecFactory</code>. 

  20.    * The <code>CodecFactory</code> is obtained through a call to 

  21.    * <code>ORB.resolve_initial_references( "CodecFactory" )</code>.

  22.    */

  23. public interface Codec extends CodecOperations, org.omg.CORBA.Object, org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity 

  24. {

  25. } // interface Codec