Package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior

Interface IdentifiableFactoryFinder

All Known Subinterfaces:

TaggedComponentFactoryFinder

All Known Implementing Classes:

IdentifiableFactoryFinderBase, TaggedComponentFactoryFinderImpl, TaggedProfileFactoryFinderImpl, TaggedProfileTemplateFactoryFinderImpl

public interface IdentifiableFactoryFinder

Interface used to manage a group of related IdentifiableFactory instances. Factories can be registered, and invoked through a create method, which must be implemented to handle the case of no registered factory appropriately.

Author:

Ken Cavanaugh

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Identifiable	create(int id, InputStream is)	If there is a registered factory for id, use it to read an Identifiable from is.
void	registerFactory(IdentifiableFactory factory)	Register a factory for the given id.

Method Details

create

Identifiable create(int id,
 InputStream is)

If there is a registered factory for id, use it to read an Identifiable from is. Otherwise create an appropriate generic container, or throw an error. The type of generic container, or error behavior is a property of the implementation.

registerFactory

void registerFactory(IdentifiableFactory factory)

Register a factory for the given id.