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+// $Id$
+
+#if !defined (DEPLOYMENT_CONNECTION_IDL)
+#define DEPLOYMENT_CONNECTION_IDL
+
+#include "DAnCE/Deployment/Deployment_DeploymentPlan.idl"
+#include <ciaosvcs/Events/CIAO_Events_Base/CIAO_Events.idl>
+
+// *************** Packaging and Deployment ***************
+module Deployment
+{
+  typedef sequence < Object > Endpoints;
+  //typedef Object Endpoint;
+  
+  // @@changed
+  // struct Connection
+  //   {
+  //     string name;
+  //     Endpoints endpoint;
+  //   };
+  
+  // CIAO's specific <Connection> type defition.
+  // To avoid the connection info in the plan being passed to the
+  // local node and to make the implementation not very cumbersome
+  // I changed the connection struct to include some extra informations.
+  struct Connection
+  {
+    string instanceName;
+    string portName;
+    CCMComponentPortKind kind;
+
+    string endpointInstanceName; // CIAO specific extension
+    string endpointPortName;     // CIAO specific extension
+
+    // the endpoints member is change to endpoint.
+    // Since we will not have more than 1 objref in there.
+    Object endpoint;
+
+    // A wrapper facade interface to provision different event
+    // communication mechanisms, including RTEC, etc.
+    CIAO::CIAO_Event_Service event_service;
+
+    // The properties of this connection, particularly useful
+    // to speicfy QoS properties of pub/sub service connections.
+    Properties config;
+  };
+
+  typedef sequence < Connection > Connections;
+};
+#endif /* DEPLOYMENT_CONNECTION_IDL */