001/* AdapterActivatorOperations.java --
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038
039package org.omg.PortableServer;
040
041import org.omg.CORBA.OBJECT_NOT_EXIST;
042
043
044/**
045 * Defines the operations, applicable to the AdapterActivator.
046 *
047 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
048 */
049public interface AdapterActivatorOperations
050{
051  /**
052  * This method is invoked when the ORB receives a request for an object
053  * reference that identifies a non-existing target POA, to create it.
054  * The ORB invokes this operation once for each POA that must be created
055  * in order for the target POA to exist. The process remebers creating a
056  * nested folder structure, starting from the ancestor POA closest to the
057  * root POA. The operation is invoked on the adapter activator of
058  * POA that is the parent of the POA that needs to be created.
059  *
060  * @param parent the parent POA, for that the child POA must be created.
061  * @param child_name the name of the child POA that must be created.
062  *
063  * @return true if the operation has successfully created the needed POA,
064  * false that POA cannot be created. In this case, the client will receive
065  * the remote exception ({@link OBJECT_NOT_EXIST}, minor code 2).
066  */
067  boolean unknown_adapter(POA parent, String child_name);
068}