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| * Copyright (c) 2001, 2005 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials |
| * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.jem.internal.proxy.remote; |
| /* |
| * $RCSfile: IREMBeanProxy.java,v $ |
| * $Revision: 1.3 $ $Date: 2005/08/24 20:39:06 $ |
| */ |
| |
| |
| import org.eclipse.jem.internal.proxy.core.IBeanProxy; |
| import org.eclipse.jem.internal.proxy.common.remote.Commands; |
| /** |
| * A Remote VM proxy. All IBeanProxy implementations |
| * for the Remote VM must also implement this interface. |
| * This is necessary for proper functioning. |
| * |
| * NOTE: This is an internal interface to the Remote VM Proxy. |
| * It MUST not be used outside of the proxy factory family. |
| */ |
| |
| public interface IREMBeanProxy extends IBeanProxy { |
| /** |
| * Return the ID of this proxy |
| */ |
| public Integer getID(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Proxy is about to be released, MUST mark it invalid. |
| * This is required. Resources can also be cleaned up |
| * if they are being held and need to be cleaned up. |
| * |
| * NOTE: This method will only be called when the proxy |
| * is explicitly released. If it is simply garbage collected, |
| * then this method will not be called. Simple garbage collection |
| * means that no one is referencing this proxy. The proxy factory |
| * will know what id this proxy was referencing and will release it |
| * on the server at GC time. |
| * |
| * If there are resources |
| * that absolutely must be released, then the finalize method |
| * should be implemented to do the clean up. However, try not |
| * to have this be the case. Finalize methods add overhead that is |
| * usually better not to have. The better way is for any users |
| * that get this kind of proxy object know to call release on |
| * ProxyFactoryRegistry to release it before garbage collection. |
| */ |
| public void release(); |
| |
| /** |
| * Render this bean for transport to the server into a Commands.ValueObject. |
| * For example, a string may put a string. An id type may put out the id. |
| */ |
| public void renderBean(Commands.ValueObject renderInto); |
| |
| } |
