001/* DynAny.java --
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036
037
038package org.omg.DynamicAny;
039
040import java.io.Serializable;
041
042import org.omg.CORBA.Any;
043import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;
044
045/**
046 * <p>
047 * The DynAny interface provides possibility to access the components of the
048 * CORBA object, stored inside the {@link Any}. The DynAny and derived classes
049 * additionally allows to access the members of the sequence, structure, union
050 * and get the data about enumeration, value type and CORBA <code>fixed</code>
051 * without knowing the exact type at the run time. The returned members are also
052 * wrapped into DynAny objects, allowing them to be the nested structures.
053 * </p>
054 * <p>
055 * The DynAny's are usually produced by {@link DynAnyFactory}. This factory is
056 * obtained from the ORB: <br>
057 * <code>
058 * DynAnyFactory f = DynAnyFactoryHelper.narrow
059 *   (orb.resolve_initial_references("DynAnyFactory"));
060 * </code>
061 * </p>
062 * <p>
063 * DynAny can also be returned by a method, invoked on another DynAny.
064 * </p>
065 *
066 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
067 */
068public interface DynAny
069  extends DynAnyOperations, IDLEntity, org.omg.CORBA.Object, Serializable
070{
071}