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/* BindingIterator.java --
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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package org.omg.CosNaming;
import org.omg.CORBA.portable.IDLEntity;
import java.io.Serializable;
/**
* The iterator for seing the available bindings.
*
* @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
*/
public interface BindingIterator
extends BindingIteratorOperations, org.omg.CORBA.Object, Serializable,
IDLEntity
{
/**
* Destroy the iterator on the server side. This must always be
* called, as otherwise the iterator will remain on the server even
* after the client application terminates.
*
* @specnote since 1.3 this method has moved into BindingIteratorOperations.
*/
void destroy();
/**
* Return the desired amount of bindings.
*
* @param amount the maximal number of bindings to return.
* @param a_list a holder to store the returned bindings.
*
* @return false if there are no more bindings available,
* true otherwise.
*
* @specnote since 1.3 this method has moved into BindingIteratorOperations.
*/
boolean next_n(int amount, BindingListHolder a_list);
/**
* Return the next binding.
*
* @param a_binding a holder, where the next binding will be stored.
*
* @return false if there are no more bindings available, true
* otherwise.
*
* @specnote since 1.3 this method has moved into BindingIteratorOperations.
*/
boolean next_one(BindingHolder a_binding);
}