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package com.sun.star.comp.beans;

import java.awt.Container;

import com.sun.star.lang.XComponent;
import com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext;

/**
 * This abstract class reprecents a connection to the office
 * application.

    @deprecated
 */
public interface OfficeConnection
	extends XComponent
{
	/**
	 * Sets a connection URL.
	 *
	 * @param url This is UNO URL which describes the type of a connection.
	 */
	void setUnoUrl(String url)
		throws java.net.MalformedURLException;

	/**
	 * Sets an AWT container catory.
	 *
	 * @param containerFactory This is a application provided AWT container
	 *	factory.
	 */
	void setContainerFactory(ContainerFactory containerFactory);

	/**
	 * Retrives the UNO component context.
	 * Establishes a connection if necessary and initialises the
	 * UNO service manager if it has not already been initialised.
	 *
	 * @return The office UNO component context.
	 */
	XComponentContext getComponentContext();

	/**
	 * Creates an office window.
	 * The window is either a sub-class of java.awt.Canvas (local) or
	 * java.awt.Container (RVP).
	 *
	 * This method does not add add the office window to its container.
	 *
	 * @param container This is an AWT container.
	 * @return The office window instance.
	 */
	OfficeWindow createOfficeWindow(Container container);
}