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+// -*- C++ -*-
+
+//=============================================================================
+/**
+ *  @file   Endpoint_Selector_Factory.h
+ *
+ *  $Id$
+ *
+ * Strategies for selecting profile/endpoint from an IOR for making an
+ * invocation.
+ *
+ *  @author Marina Spivak <marina@cs.wustl.edu>
+ *  @author Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@cs.wustl.edu>
+ */
+//=============================================================================
+
+#ifndef TAO_ENDPOINT_SELECTOR_FACTORY_H
+#define TAO_ENDPOINT_SELECTOR_FACTORY_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/Versioned_Namespace.h"
+#include "ace/Service_Object.h"
+#include "ace/CORBA_macros.h"
+
+TAO_BEGIN_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
+
+namespace CORBA
+{
+  class Environment;
+
+  class Exception;
+}
+
+class TAO_Invocation_Endpoint_Selector;
+
+
+// ****************************************************************
+
+/**
+ * @class TAO_Endpoint_Selector_Factory
+ *
+ * @brief Factory for initializing <Endpoint_Selection_State> and
+ * obtaining appropriate <Invocation_Endpoint_Selector>.
+ *
+ * Used by Invocation classes to intialize its endpoint selection
+ * strategy and state based on the effective policies.
+ * Endpoint selection strategies are stateless objects - all the
+ * state they need is contained by Invocation in
+ * <Endpoint_Selection_State>.  Thus, rather than allocating an
+ * endpoint selection strategy object for each Invocation, the
+ * factory simply returns the appropriate one from the
+ * set preallocated in the ORB_Core.  One endpoint selection
+ * strategy object can be used by many invocations concurrently.
+ */
+class TAO_Export TAO_Endpoint_Selector_Factory
+  : public ACE_Service_Object
+{
+public:
+  /// Destructor.
+  virtual ~TAO_Endpoint_Selector_Factory (void);
+
+  /// Get an Invocation's endpoint selection strategy and
+  /// initialize the endpoint selection state instance.
+  virtual TAO_Invocation_Endpoint_Selector *get_selector (
+              ACE_ENV_SINGLE_ARG_DECL) = 0;
+
+
+};
+
+TAO_END_VERSIONED_NAMESPACE_DECL
+
+#include /**/ "ace/post.h"
+#endif  /* TAO_ENDPOINT_SELECTOR_FACTORY_H */