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package example.translator;


import java.rmi.Remote;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;


// Translator service interface
//
//    The translation of input text is defined in terms
//    of input and output 'locale' language options.
//    The language options are strings that follow the
//    IETF RFC 3066 'Tags for the Identification of
//    Languages' (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt).

public interface Translator
    extends Remote
{   
    // Translate a text string from one language to another
    // (from inputLocale to outputLocale).
    public String getTranslation(String inputLocale,
                                 String outputLocale,
                                 String inputText)
        throws RemoteException;

        
    // Return an array of strings that indicates the service's
    // support for translation from one source input language
    // into another.
    // For example: { "en: de, es, fr, it, pt", "de: fr, en", ... }
    // (Ideally information like this should have been defined
    // in the service description itself.)
    public String[] getTranslationOptions()
        throws RemoteException;
}