TAO/tao/Stub_Factory.h

   1 // -*- C++ -*-
   2
   3 //=============================================================================
   4 /**
   5  *  @file    Stub_Factory.h
   6  *
   7  *   Defines the a factory interface for creating Stubs.
   8  *   This class creates the default stub, that is used in
   9  *   plain CORBA.
  10  *
  11  *  @author  Angelo Corsaro <corsaro@cs.wustl.edu>
  12  */
  13 //=============================================================================
  14
  15 #ifndef TAO_STUB_FACTORY_H_
  16 #define TAO_STUB_FACTORY_H_
  17
  18 #include /**/ "ace/pre.h"
  19
  20 #include /**/ "tao/TAO_Export.h"
  21
  22 #if !defined (ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE)
  23 # pragma once
  24 #endif /* ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE */
  25
  26 #include /**/ "tao/Versioned_Namespace.h"
  27
  28 #include "ace/Service_Object.h"
  29
  30 TAO_BEGIN_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
  31
  32 // Forward references
  33 class TAO_MProfile;
  34 class TAO_ORB_Core;
  35 class TAO_Stub;
  36
  37 /**
  38  * @class TAO_Stub_Factory
  39  *
  40  * This class is a factory whose product is the plain TAO_Stub used by
  41  * TAO. Its subclasses build Stub object that are specialization of
  42  * the TAO_Stub. As an example TAO_RT_Stub_Factory creates
  43  * RT_TAO_Stub. This factory, or one of its subclasses is dynamically
  44  * plugged into the ORB_Core, and is used by the ORB_Core to create
  45  * Stub Objects.
  46  */
  47 class TAO_Export TAO_Stub_Factory : public ACE_Service_Object
  48 {
  49 public:
  50   /// Destructor.
  51   virtual ~TAO_Stub_Factory ();
  52
  53   /// Creates a Stub Object.
  54   virtual TAO_Stub *create_stub (const char *repository_id,
  55                                  const TAO_MProfile &profiles,
  56                                  TAO_ORB_Core *orb_core) = 0;
  57 };
  58
  59 TAO_END_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
  60
  61 #include /**/ "ace/post.h"
  62 #endif /* TAO_STUB_FACTORY_H_ */