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+/* -*- C++ -*- */
+// $Id$
+
+
+// ============================================================================
+//
+// = LIBRARY
+//    ace
+// 
+// = FILENAME
+//    CORBA_Ref
+//
+// = AUTHOR
+//    Irfan Pyarali (irfan@wuerl.wustl.edu).
+//    Tim Harrison (harrison@cs.wustl.edu)
+//
+// = DESCRIPTION
+//    A wrapper for helping with Orbix object references.
+//
+// ============================================================================
+
+#if !defined (ACE_CORBA_REF_H)
+#define ACE_CORBA_REF_H
+
+template <class CORBA_REF>
+class ACE_CORBA_Ref
+  // = TITLE
+  //    A wrapper for helping with orbix object references.
+  //
+  // = DESCRIPTION
+  //    ACE_CORBA_Ref is parameterized by the type of orbix object
+  //    reference to be used.  The construtor, operator=, and the
+  //    destructor of ACE_CORBA_Ref perform implicit duplicates and
+  //    releases in order to help make the use of orbix object
+  //    references transparent.
+{
+public:
+  ACE_CORBA_Ref (void);
+  // Null construction.
+
+  ACE_CORBA_Ref (CORBA_REF *ref);
+  // Contruction with an orbix ref.
+  // performs a ref->_duplicate().
+
+  CORBA_REF *operator= (CORBA_REF *ref);
+  // Assignment performs a ref->_duplicate().
+
+  operator CORBA_REF *(void) const;
+  // Type operator
+
+  CORBA_REF *operator-> (void) const;
+  // Smart pointer to forward all CORBA_REF calls to the underlying
+  // orbix reference.
+
+  int operator== (CORBA_REF *) const;
+  // Pointer comparison.
+
+  int operator!= (CORBA_REF *) const;
+  // Pointer comparison.
+
+  ~ACE_CORBA_Ref (void);
+  // Destruction: calls ref_->_release
+
+private:
+  CORBA_REF *ref_;
+};
+
+#if defined (__ACE_INLINE__)
+#include "ace/CORBA_Ref.i"
+#endif /* __ACE_INLINE__ */
+
+#if defined (ACE_TEMPLATES_REQUIRE_SOURCE)
+#include "ace/CORBA_Ref.cpp"
+#endif /* ACE_TEMPLATES_REQUIRE_SOURCE */
+
+#if defined (ACE_TEMPLATES_REQUIRE_PRAGMA)
+#pragma implementation ("CORBA_Ref.cpp")
+#endif /* ACE_TEMPLATES_REQUIRE_PRAGMA */
+
+#endif /* CORBA_REF_H */