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package org.omg.CORBA;

/**

* The interface for <tt>IRObject</tt>.  For more information on

* Operations interfaces, see <a href="doc-files/generatedfiles.html#operations">

* "Generated Files: Operations files"</a>.

*/

/*

 tempout/org/omg/CORBA/IRObjectOperations.java

 Generated by the IBM IDL-to-Java compiler, version 1.0

 from ../../Lib/ir.idl

 Thursday, February 25, 1999 2:11:21 o'clock PM PST

*/

/**

 * This is the Operations interface for the mapping from <tt>IRObject</tt>.

 * Several interfaces are used as base interfaces for objects in

 * the Interface Repository (IR). These base interfaces are not instantiable.

 * A common set of operations is used to locate objects within the

 * Interface Repository. Some of these operations are defined in

 * the IRObject. All IR objects inherit from the IRObject interface,

 * which provides an operation for identifying the actual type of

 * the object. (The IDL base interface IRObject represents the most

 * generic interface from which all other Interface Repository interfaces

 * are derived, even the Repository itself.) All java implementations of

 * IR objects must implement the IRObjectOperations interface.

 * @see IDLTypeOperations

 * @see IDLType

 * @see IRObject

 */

public interface IRObjectOperations

{

    // read interface

    /**

     * Returns the <code>DefinitionKind</code> corresponding to this Interface Repository object.

     * @return the <code>DefinitionKind</code> corresponding to this Interface Repository object.

     */

    org.omg.CORBA.DefinitionKind def_kind ();

    // write interface

    /**

     * Destroys this object. If the object is a Container,

     * this method is applied to all its contents. If the object contains an IDLType

     * attribute for an anonymous type, that IDLType is destroyed.

     * If the object is currently contained in some other object, it is removed.

     * If the method is invoked on a <code>Repository</code> or on a <code>PrimitiveDef</code>

     * then the <code>BAD_INV_ORDER</code> exception is raised with minor value 2.

     * An attempt to destroy an object that would leave the repository in an

     * incoherent state causes <code>BAD_INV_ORDER</code> exception to be raised

     * with the minor code 1.

     * @exception BAD_INV_ORDER if this method is invoked on a repository or

     *            <code>PrimitiveDef</code>, or if an attempt to destroy an

     *            object would leave the repository in an incoherent state

     */

    void destroy ();

} // interface IRObjectOperations