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+// -*- C++ -*-
+
+//=============================================================================
+/**
+ *  @file     Reply_Dispatcher.h
+ *
+ *  $Id$
+ *
+ *   Define the interface for the Reply_Dispatcher strategies.
+ *
+ *
+ *  @author  Alexander Babu Arulanthu <alex@cs.wustl.edu>
+ */
+//=============================================================================
+
+#ifndef TAO_REPLY_DISPATCHER_H
+#define TAO_REPLY_DISPATCHER_H
+
+#include /**/ "ace/pre.h"
+
+#include /**/ "tao/TAO_Export.h"
+
+#if !defined (ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE)
+# pragma once
+#endif /* ACE_LACKS_PRAGMA_ONCE */
+
+#include "tao/Basic_Types.h"
+
+TAO_BEGIN_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
+
+// Forward Declarations.
+class TAO_GIOP_Message_State;
+class TAO_GIOP_Message_Version;
+class TAO_Transport;
+class TAO_Pluggable_Reply_Params;
+
+/**
+ * @class TAO_Reply_Dispatcher
+ *
+ *
+ * Different invocation modes process the Reply messages in
+ * different ways.  Traditional synchronous replies simply receive
+ * the message and wake up the waiting thread (if any).
+ * Asynchronous Method Invocation (Callbacks) must process the
+ * message in the thread that receives it.
+ * Deferred Synchronous (DII) and AMI in the Poller mode save the
+ * reply for later processing in the application.
+ * The lower level components in the ORB only deal with this
+ * abstract interface, when the invocation is made the right type
+ * of Reply Dispatcher is instantiated and registered with the
+ * Transport object.
+ */
+class TAO_Export TAO_Reply_Dispatcher
+{
+
+public:
+  /// Constructor.
+  TAO_Reply_Dispatcher (void);
+
+  /// Destructor.
+  virtual ~TAO_Reply_Dispatcher (void);
+
+  /**
+   * Dispatch the reply. Return 1 on sucess, -1 on error.
+   * @todo Pluggable Messaging:  this method has too many arguments,
+   *    the "Right Thing"[tm] is for the Transport Object to create a
+   *    "ClientReply" that encapsulates all we need to process a
+   *    reply.  Naturally it is possible that different messaging
+   *    protocols implement different variants of such ClientReply
+   *    class.
+   */
+  virtual int dispatch_reply (TAO_Pluggable_Reply_Params &params) = 0;
+
+  /**
+   * The used for the pending reply has been closed.
+   * No reply is expected.
+   * @todo If the connection was closed due to a CloseConnection
+   *    message then we could re-issue the request instead of raising
+   *    the exception, it would a matter of simply adding a boolean
+   *    argument to this function.
+   */
+  virtual void connection_closed (void) = 0;
+
+  /// Get the reply status.
+  CORBA::ULong reply_status (void) const;
+
+protected:
+  /// Reply or LocateReply status.
+  CORBA::ULong reply_status_;
+};
+
+TAO_END_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
+
+#if defined (__ACE_INLINE__)
+#include "tao/Reply_Dispatcher.inl"
+#endif /* __ACE_INLINE__ */
+
+#include /**/ "ace/post.h"
+
+#endif /* TAO_REPLY_DISPATCHER_H */