001    /* CurrentOperations.java --
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037    
038    
039    package org.omg.PortableServer;
040    
041    import org.omg.PortableServer.CurrentPackage.NoContext;
042    
043    /**
044     * Provides the Id of the object currently being served and POA
045     * to that this object is connected. Both Id and POA can be much
046     * simpler obtained from the servant by {@link Servant#_object_id() }
047     * and {@link Servant#_poa()} that use the CurrentOperations indirectly.
048     *
049     * As long as the ORB reference is still available, the current information
050     * is available via {@link Current} that is returned by
051     * ORB.resolve_initial_references("POACurrent"). To support this call,
052     * the ORB maintains the thread to invocation data map for all calls that
053     * are currently being processed.
054     *
055     * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
056     */
057    public interface CurrentOperations
058      extends org.omg.CORBA.CurrentOperations
059    {
060      /**
061       * Returns the Id of the object currently being served. The returned
062       * value is also correct if the calling code is running is several
063       * paralled threads.
064       *
065       * @return the Id of the object that is currently being served by this
066       * thread.
067       */
068      byte[] get_object_id()
069                    throws NoContext;
070    
071      /**
072       * Returns POA to that the object currently being served is connected.
073       * The returned value is also correct if the calling code is running is several
074       * paralled threads.
075       *
076       * @return the Id of the object that is currently being served by this
077       * thread.
078       */
079      POA get_POA()
080           throws NoContext;
081    }