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037    
038    
039    package org.omg.CORBA.portable;
040    
041    
042    /**
043     * ValueBase is the basic interface for all CORBA value data types. A value
044     * type is something between CORBA structure and CORBA object. Like CORBA
045     * object, it can have methods, supporting some IDL-defined interface.
046     * However, like structures, they are local and passed by value,
047     * not by IOR reference.
048     *
049     * Unlike CORBA objects, values are not connected to any ORB by
050     * default; they hanlde the implemented functionality locally. The classes,
051     * required to implement that functionality, should either be pre-defined
052     * or they can be downloaded from the certain URL, defined as CodeBase.
053     *
054     * The value types can have both public and private members. They support
055     * inheritance. Value types can also be abstract.
056     *
057     * For transferring the value type data via stream, it must implement either
058     * {@link CustomValue} or {@link StreamableValue}.
059     *
060     * @since 1.3
061     *
062     * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
063     */
064    public interface ValueBase
065      extends IDLEntity
066    {
067      /**
068       * Get the truncatable repository ids.
069       *
070       * @return the array of repository ids, defining the base types, to that
071       * basic types this value base can be truncated.
072       */
073      String[] _truncatable_ids();
074    }