/* Context.java -- Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. */ package org.omg.CORBA; /** * * This class holds the list of the named properties. It is normally * used to represent information about various circumstances of the * invocation. A Context if first created by * {@link org.omg.CORBA.ORB#get_default_context() } and then invoking * {@link create_child(String)} of the default context. * * The contexts are named. * * @author Audrius Meskauskas (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) * */ public abstract class Context { public Context() { } /** * Get the context name. * @return the name of this context. */ public abstract String context_name(); /** * Create a child of this Context, giving it a name. * @param name a name of the child context. * * @return the newly created context. */ public abstract Context create_child(String parm1); /** * Delete one or several (identically named) given properties. * * @param property the name of the property to delet. */ public abstract void delete_values(String property); /** * Get the parent of this context. * @return the parent of this context. */ public abstract Context parent(); /** * Set a property. * @param name the property name. * @param value the property value. */ public abstract void set_one_value(String name, Any value); }