001 /* OMGVMCID.java -- 002 Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 021 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 022 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 023 combination. 024 025 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 026 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 027 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 028 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 029 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 030 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 031 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 032 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 033 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 034 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 035 exception statement from your version. */ 036 037 038 package org.omg.CORBA; 039 040 /** 041 * </p> 042 * The higher 20 bits of any CORBA exception hold "Vendor Minor Codeset ID" 043 * (VMCID), for instance 0x4F4D0000 (OMG standard), 0x54410000 (TAO), 0x4A430000 044 * (JacORB), 0x49540000 (IONA), 0x53550000 (Sun). 045 * </p> 046 * <p> 047 * GNU Classpath official vendor minor code set id is 0x47430000 ("GC\x00\x00"), 048 * and the reserved space spans till 0x47430FFF, allowing to use up to 4096 049 * Classpath specific exceptions. It was assigned 30/09/2005 by OMG Vice President 050 * Andrew Watson. 051 * </p> 052 * <p> 053 * The standard minor codes for the standard system exceptions are prefaced by 054 * the VMCID assigned to OMG, defined as 0x4F4D0000 (the code of the minor field 055 * for the standard exception with minor code 1 is 0x4F4D0001). Within a vendor 056 * assigned space, the assignment of values to minor codes is left to the 057 * vendor. 058 * </p> 059 * 060 * <p> 061 * The VMCID 0 and 0xFFFFF0000 are reserved for experimental use. 062 * </p> 063 * 064 * @author Audrius Meskauskas (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org) 065 */ 066 public interface OMGVMCID 067 { 068 /** 069 * The OMG vendor minor code ID. 070 */ 071 int value = 0x4F4D0000; 072 }