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1   /***
2    * Jonathan: an Open Distributed Processing Environment 
3    * Copyright (C) 2000 France Telecom R&D
4    * 
5    * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6    * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
7    * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8    * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9    * 
10   * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11   * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12   * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
13   * Lesser General Public License for more details.
14   * 
15   * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
16   * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
17   * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
18   * 
19   * Release: 3.0
20   *
21   * Contact: jonathan@objectweb.org
22   *
23   * Author: Fabien Delpiano, Bruno Dumant
24   * 
25   */
26  
27  package org.objectweb.jonathan.apis.kernel;
28  
29  
30  /** 
31   * Names are non-mutable structures representing names used by contexts.
32   * A Name is a pair <id,subname>, where id is an identifier (represented as 
33   * a String, and subname a (possibly null) Name.
34   *
35   * The "" identifier is reserved in contexts representing trees 
36   * to represent the root of the tree.
37   */
38  public interface Name {
39  
40     /** 
41      * Returns the id of the target name.
42      * @return the id of the target name.
43      */
44     String   getId();
45  
46     /** 
47      * Returns the subname of the target name.
48      * @return the subname of the target name.
49      */
50     Name getSubName();
51  }
52

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