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 * RMI-IIOP v1.0

 * Copyright IBM Corp. 1998 1999  All Rights Reserved

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package javax.rmi.CORBA;

import java.io.Serializable;

import java.rmi.Remote;

import java.rmi.RemoteException;

import javax.rmi.CORBA.Tie;

import javax.rmi.CORBA.ValueHandler;

import org.omg.CORBA.ORB;

import org.omg.CORBA.portable.InputStream;

import org.omg.CORBA.portable.OutputStream;

import org.omg.CORBA.SystemException;

/**

 * Supports delegation for method implementations in {@link Util}.  The

 * delegate is a singleton instance of a class that implements this

 * interface and provides a replacement implementation for all the

 * methods of <code>javax.rmi.CORBA.Util</code>.

 *

 * Delegation is enabled by providing the delegate's class name as the

 * value of the

 * <code>javax.rmi.CORBA.UtilClass</code>

 * system property.

 *

 * @see Util

 */

public interface UtilDelegate {

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#mapSystemException}.

     */

    RemoteException mapSystemException(SystemException ex);

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#writeAny}.

     */

    void writeAny(OutputStream out, Object obj);

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#readAny}.

     */

    java.lang.Object readAny(InputStream in);

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#writeRemoteObject}.

     */

    void writeRemoteObject(OutputStream out, Object obj);

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#writeAbstractObject}.

     */

    void writeAbstractObject(OutputStream out, Object obj);

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#registerTarget}.

     */

    void registerTarget(Tie tie, Remote target);

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#unexportObject}.

     */

    void unexportObject(Remote target) throws java.rmi.NoSuchObjectException;

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#getTie}.

     */

    Tie getTie(Remote target);

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#createValueHandler}.

     */

    ValueHandler createValueHandler();

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#getCodebase}.

     */

    String getCodebase(Class clz);

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#loadClass}.

     */

    Class loadClass(String className, String remoteCodebase, ClassLoader loader)

        throws ClassNotFoundException;

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#isLocal}.

     */

    boolean isLocal(Stub stub) throws RemoteException;

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#wrapException}.

     */

    RemoteException wrapException(Throwable obj);

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#copyObject}.

     */

    Object copyObject(Object obj, ORB orb) throws RemoteException;

    /**

     * Delegation call for {@link Util#copyObjects}.

     */

    Object[] copyObjects(Object[] obj, ORB orb) throws RemoteException;

}