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037    
038    
039    package org.omg.CORBA;
040    
041    import org.omg.CORBA.DynAnyPackage.InvalidSeq;
042    
043    /**
044     * Represents the {@link DynAny}, holding a value type.
045     *
046     * A value type is something between CORBA structure and CORBA object.
047     * Like CORBA object, it can have methods, supporting some IDL-defined
048     * interface. However, like structures, they are always local and passed by
049     * value, not by IOR reference.
050     *
051     * The value types can have both public and private members. They support
052     * inheritance. Value types can also be abstract.
053     *
054     * @deprecated by {@link org.omg.DynamicAny.DynValue}
055     *
056     * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
057     */
058    public interface DynValue
059      extends DynAny, org.omg.CORBA.Object
060    {
061      /**
062       * Get the kind of the member, pointed by the internal pointer.
063       *
064       * @return the kind of the member.
065       */
066      TCKind current_member_kind();
067    
068      /**
069       * Get the name of the member, pointed by the internal pointer.
070       *
071       * @return the name of the member.
072       */
073      String current_member_name();
074    
075      /**
076       * Get all members of the enclosed value type object.
077       * @return members, as an array of the name - value pairs.
078       */
079      NameValuePair[] get_members();
080    
081      /**
082       * Set all members for the enclosed value type object.
083       *
084       * @param value an array of members to set.
085       *
086       * @throws InvalidSeq if the passed sequence is not valid.
087       */
088      void set_members(NameValuePair[] value)
089                throws InvalidSeq;
090    }