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+/* Codec.java --
+   Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU Classpath.
+
+GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+General Public License for more details.
+
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+along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
+Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+02110-1301 USA.
+
+Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
+making a combined work based on this library.  Thus, the terms and
+conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole
+combination.
+
+As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
+permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
+executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
+modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under
+terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked
+independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
+module.  An independent module is a module which is not derived from
+or based on this library.  If you modify this library, you may extend
+this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
+obligated to do so.  If you do not wish to do so, delete this
+exception statement from your version. */
+
+
+package org.omg.IOP;
+
+import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;
+
+/**
+ * <p>
+ * Codec provides means to encode IDL data types into the byte arrays.
+ * Some parts of the CORBA message may contain such abstracted (encapsulated)
+ * byte arrays, holding arbitrary information. The encoding and decoding
+ * operations are defined separately in {@link CodecOperations}.
+ * The Codec for {@link ENCODING_CDR_ENCAPS} v 1.0 - 1.2 is required by OMG.
+ * Vendors can implement additional Codec's, driven by alternative algorithms.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * The {@link ENCODING_CDR_ENCAPS} Codec, returned by the {@link CodecFactory},
+ * is a local object. It is not possible to get its stringified reference,
+ * to send it over CDR streams or invoke the methods remotely.
+ * </p>
+ * <p>
+ * Codec is obtained from {@link CodecFactory}. CodecFactory is returned by
+ * <code>ORB.resolve_initial_references("CodecFactory")</code>.
+ * </p>
+ * @specnote The ENCODING_CDR_ENCAPS Codec is local in both Suns
+ * (at least till 1.4 inclusive) an this implementation.
+ *
+ *
+ *
+ * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
+ */
+public interface Codec
+  extends CodecOperations, IDLEntity, org.omg.CORBA.Object
+{
+}
+\ No newline at end of file