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This is a non-standard protocol for higher efficiency than SOAP, used by the base UIMA Collection processing manager for supporting networked deployment. See UIMA-AS as a more modern alternative supporting more standard protocols.

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package org.apache.vinci.transport;

import org.apache.vinci.debug.Debug;

/**
 * Base class for components that can be included in Frame documents. Descendents currently include
 * only FrameLeaf and Frame.
 */
public class FrameComponent {
  /**
   * Set the attributes (replacing any previous ones) assocated with this Frame component. Default
   * implementation does nothing since attributes are not supported by default.
   * @param s -
   */
  public void setAttributes(Attributes s) {
    Debug.p("WARNING: Attempt to set attributes of FrameComponent "
            + "which does not support them. Attribute info will be lost.");
  }

  /**
   * Get the attributes associated with this FrameComponent.
   * 
   * @return The set of attributes associated with this FrameComponent. This method may return
   *         "null" to indicate there are no attributes. It could however return an empty Attribute
   *         set depending on the implementation.
   */
  public Attributes getAttributes() {
    return null;
  }

}