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Artifact with proxy functionality for plain remote procedure calls (RPC), a POJO alternative to RMI.

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package org.refcodes.remoting;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.refcodes.component.OpenException;
import org.refcodes.exception.VetoException;

/**
 * Remote control providing subjects to be operated on by {@link RemoteClient}
 * instances.
 */
public interface RemoteServer extends Remote {

	/**
	 * Returns true if the provided subject is contained inside this
	 * {@link RemoteServer}.
	 * 
	 * @param aSubject The subject to be tested if it is contained inside the
	 *        {@link RemoteServer}.
	 * 
	 * @return True if the given subject is contained inside the
	 *         {@link RemoteServer}.
	 */
	boolean hasSubject( Object aSubject );

	/**
	 * Returns an (immutable) iterator containing all the proxy objects
	 * previously being published. Use the {@link #signOffSubject(Object)}
	 * method in order to remove a published subject.
	 * 
	 * @return An iterator containing the published proxy objects.
	 */
	Iterator