Codec
Interface Codec
- All Superinterfaces:
- CodecOperations, IDLEntity, Object, Serializable
public interface Codec extends CodecOperations, Object, IDLEntity
The formats of IOR components and service context data used by ORB services are often defined as CDR encapsulations encoding instances of IDL defined data types. The Codec
provides a mechanism to transfer these components between their IDL data types and their CDR encapsulation representations.
A Codec
is obtained from the CodecFactory
. The CodecFactory
is obtained through a call to ORB.resolve_ini