/*
 * @(#)TaggedComponent.java	1.6 03/12/19 
 *
 * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package com.sun.corba.se.spi.ior;

import org.omg.CORBA_2_3.portable.OutputStream ;
import org.omg.CORBA.ORB ;

/** Generic interface for all tagged components.  Users of the ORB may
* create implementations of this class and also corresponding factories
* of type TaggedComponentFactory.  The factories can be registered with an
* ORB instance, in which case they will be used to unmarshal IORs containing
* the registered tagged component.
*/
public interface TaggedComponent extends Identifiable
{
    org.omg.IOP.TaggedComponent getIOPComponent( ORB orb ) ;
}