001 /* BindingIterator.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039 package org.omg.CosNaming; 040 041 import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity; 042 043 import java.io.Serializable; 044 045 /** 046 * The iterator for seing the available bindings. 047 * 048 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 049 */ 050 public interface BindingIterator 051 extends BindingIteratorOperations, org.omg.CORBA.Object, Serializable, 052 IDLEntity 053 { 054 /** 055 * Destroy the iterator on the server side. This must always be 056 * called, as otherwise the iterator will remain on the server even 057 * after the client application terminates. 058 * 059 * @specnote since 1.3 this method has moved into BindingIteratorOperations. 060 */ 061 void destroy(); 062 063 /** 064 * Return the desired amount of bindings. 065 * 066 * @param amount the maximal number of bindings to return. 067 * @param a_list a holder to store the returned bindings. 068 * 069 * @return false if there are no more bindings available, 070 * true otherwise. 071 * 072 * @specnote since 1.3 this method has moved into BindingIteratorOperations. 073 */ 074 boolean next_n(int amount, BindingListHolder a_list); 075 076 /** 077 * Return the next binding. 078 * 079 * @param a_binding a holder, where the next binding will be stored. 080 * 081 * @return false if there are no more bindings available, true 082 * otherwise. 083 * 084 * @specnote since 1.3 this method has moved into BindingIteratorOperations. 085 */ 086 boolean next_one(BindingHolder a_binding); 087 }