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+// -*- C++ -*-
+
+//=============================================================================
+/**
+ *  @file    Acceptor_Filter.h
+ *
+ *  $Id$
+ *
+ *  @author Marina Spivak (marina@cs.wustl.edu)
+ *  @author Carlos O'Ryan (coryan@uci.edu)
+ */
+//=============================================================================
+
+#ifndef TAO_ACCEPTOR_FILTER_H
+#define TAO_ACCEPTOR_FILTER_H
+
+#include /**/ "ace/pre.h"
+
+#include "tao/orbconf.h"
+#include /**/ "tao/TAO_Export.h"
+#include "tao/Basic_Types.h"
+
+#if !defined (ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE)
+# pragma once
+#endif /* ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE */
+
+TAO_BEGIN_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
+
+namespace TAO
+{
+  class ObjectKey;
+}
+
+class TAO_MProfile;
+class TAO_Acceptor;
+
+/**
+ * @class TAO_Acceptor_Filter
+ *
+ * @brief Interface for mprofile creation strategies.
+ *
+ * Concrete Acceptor_Filter encapsulates a strategy for populating
+ * mprofile with profiles: it decides which endpoints are included
+ * into mprofile and which ones are not.
+ */
+class TAO_Export TAO_Acceptor_Filter
+{
+public:
+  virtual ~TAO_Acceptor_Filter (void);
+
+  /**
+   * Populate @a mprofile with profiles. Profiles are created for
+   * selected acceptors (endpoints) from the array delimited by
+   * @a acceptors_begin and @a acceptors_end.
+   */
+  virtual int fill_profile (const TAO::ObjectKey &object_key,
+                            TAO_MProfile &mprofile,
+                            TAO_Acceptor **acceptors_begin,
+                            TAO_Acceptor **acceptors_end,
+                            CORBA::Short priority = TAO_INVALID_PRIORITY) = 0;
+
+  /// Encodes the endpoints in the profiles into the TAO_TAG_ENDPOINTS
+  /// tag component of profiles.
+  virtual int encode_endpoints (TAO_MProfile &mprofile) = 0;
+};
+
+TAO_END_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
+
+#include /**/ "ace/post.h"
+#endif /* TAO_ACCEPTOR_FILTER_H */