2362N/A * Copyright (c) 1999, 2004, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 0N/A * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 0N/A * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 0N/A * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 2362N/A * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this 0N/A * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 2362N/A * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. 0N/A * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT 0N/A * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or 0N/A * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License 0N/A * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that 0N/A * accompanied this code). 0N/A * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 0N/A * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 0N/A * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 2362N/A * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA 2362N/A * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any 0N/A * This class represents a Reference whose contents is a name, called the link name, 0N/A * that is bound to an atomic name in a context. 0N/A * The name is a URL, or a name to be resolved relative to the initial 0N/A * context, or if the first character of the name is ".", the name 0N/A * is relative to the context in which the link is bound. 0N/A * Normal resolution of names in context operations always follow links. 0N/A * Resolution of the link name itself may cause resolution to pass through 0N/A * other links. This gives rise to the possibility of a cycle of links whose 0N/A * resolution could not terminate normally. As a simple means to avoid such 0N/A * non-terminating resolutions, service providers may define limits on the 0N/A * number of links that may be involved in any single operation invoked 0N/A * A LinkRef contains a single StringRefAddr, whose type is "LinkAddress", 0N/A * and whose contents is the link name. The class name field of the 0N/A * Reference is that of this (LinkRef) class. 0N/A * LinkRef is bound to a name using the normal Context.bind()/rebind(), and 0N/A * DirContext.bind()/rebind(). Context.lookupLink() is used to retrieve the link 0N/A * itself if the terminal atomic name is bound to a link. 0N/A * Many naming systems support a native notion of link that may be used 0N/A * within the naming system itself. JNDI does not specify whether 0N/A * there is any relationship between such native links and JNDI links. 0N/A * A LinkRef instance is not synchronized against concurrent access by multiple 0N/A * threads. Threads that need to access a LinkRef instance concurrently should 0N/A * synchronize amongst themselves and provide the necessary locking. 0N/A * @author Rosanna Lee 0N/A * @author Scott Seligman 0N/A * @see LinkException 0N/A * @see LinkLoopException 0N/A * @see MalformedLinkException 0N/A * @see Context#lookupLink 0N/A * The serialized form of a LinkRef object consists of the serialized 0N/A * fields of its Reference superclass. 0N/A /* code for link handling */ 0N/A * Constructs a LinkRef for a name. 0N/A * @param linkName The non-null name for which to create this link. 0N/A * Constructs a LinkRef for a string name. 0N/A * @param linkName The non-null name for which to create this link. 0N/A * Retrieves the name of this link. 0N/A * @return The non-null name of this link. 0N/A * @exception MalformedLinkException If a link name could not be extracted 0N/A * @exception NamingException If a naming exception was encountered. 0N/A * Use serialVersionUID from JNDI 1.1.1 for interoperability