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  34  Provides support for the  marshalling of value types.  Value type
  35  marshalling may require access to an implementation of the value type or
  36  to meta information about the value type.  This information is passed
  37  between the sending context and the receiving context using a particular
  38  service context containing an instance of the
  39  <code>SendingContext.RunTime</code> interface.
  40  <P>
  41  A sending context may be either the client side or the server side of
  42  an invocation, depending on which contains a value type.
  43  The sending context is the client side of an
  44  invocation if the request contains a value type. It is the server side
  45  if the reply contains a value type.  The other party in the communication
  46  is the receiving context.
  47  <P>
  48  The service context marshalled for <code>SendingContext</code>
  49  consists of an encapsulated IOR for the <code>SendingContext.RunTime</code>
  50  interface.  <code>RunTime</code> is just a marker
  51  interface defined to allow extensibility in the future.  There is
  52  currently only one subinterface of <code>RunTime</code> defined:
  53  the <code>SendingContext.CodeBase</code> interface.
  54  The interface <code>CodeBase</code> defines operations to obtain code URLs
  55  and meta-information about a value type received from the sending
  56  context.
  57  <P>
  58  Note that these classes are currently defined in the
  59  <code>com.sun.org.omg.SendingContext</code>
  60  package rather than in the package <code>org.omg.SendingContext</code>.
  61  This has been done to avoid including large parts of the interface
  62  repository in the JDK core, since the interface repository is still
  63  evolving in response to the needs of the CORBA Components work.
  64  
  65 <H3>Package Specification</H3>
  66  
  67 <P>For a precise list of supported sections of official specifications with which 
  68 the Java[tm] Platform, Standard Edition 6 ORB complies, see <A 
  69 HREF="../CORBA/doc-files/compliance.html">Official Specifications for CORBA 
  70 support in Java[tm] SE 6</A>.
  71 
  72 @since 1.3
  73 <br>
  74 @serial exclude
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