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+/**************************************************************************/
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+/* Copyright (C) 2006 - 2008 FRESCOR consortium partners:                */
+/*                                                                       */
+/*   Universidad de Cantabria,              SPAIN                        */
+/*   University of York,                    UK                           */
+/*   Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna,            ITALY                        */
+/*   Kaiserslautern University,             GERMANY                      */
+/*   Univ. Politécnica  Valencia,           SPAIN                       */
+/*   Czech Technical University in Prague,  CZECH REPUBLIC               */
+/*   ENEA                                   SWEDEN                       */
+/*   Thales Communication S.A.              FRANCE                       */
+/*   Visual Tools S.A.                      SPAIN                        */
+/*   Rapita Systems Ltd                     UK                           */
+/*   Evidence                               ITALY                        */
+/*                                                                       */
+/*   See http://www.frescor.org for a link to partners' websites         */
+/*                                                                       */
+/*          FRESCOR project (FP6/2005/IST/5-034026) is funded            */
+/*       in part by the European Union Sixth Framework Programme         */
+/*       The European Union is not liable of any use that may be         */
+/*       made of this code.                                              */
+/*                                                                       */
+/*                                                                       */
+/*  This file is part of FORB (Frescor Object Request Broker)            */
+/*                                                                       */
+/* FORB is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it       */
+/* under terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the     */
+/* Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any   */
+/* later version.  FORB is distributed in the hope that it will be       */
+/* useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty   */
+/* of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU   */
+/* General Public License for more details. You should have received a   */
+/* copy of the GNU General Public License along with FORB; see file      */
+/* COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave,  */
+/* Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.                                             */
+/*                                                                       */
+/* As a special exception, including FORB header files in a file,        */
+/* instantiating FORB generics or templates, or linking other files      */
+/* with FORB objects to produce an executable application, does not      */
+/* by itself cause the resulting executable application to be covered    */
+/* by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not            */
+/* however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be  */
+/* covered by the GNU Public License.                                    */
+/**************************************************************************/
+
 #ifndef REQUEST_H
 #define REQUEST_H
 
-#include <forb/forb.h>
+/**
+ * @file   request.h
+ * @author Michal Sojka <sojkam1@fel.cvut.cz>
+ * @date   Sun Oct 12 15:50:30 2008
+ * 
+ * @brief  Data type and functions for manipulation with requests.
+ * 
+ * 
+ */
+
+
+#include <forb.h>
 #include <forb/cdr.h>
 #include <forb/basic_types.h>
 #include <forb/syncobj.h>
 #include <ul_gavlcust.h>
 #include <forb/forb-internal.h>
 
+
 /**
  * Helper structure for sending ORB requests.
  *
- * It is allocated in stub's stack.
+ * Its purpose is to match incomming reply messages to previously sent
+ * requests. It is allocated in stub's stack and during waiting for
+ * reply is stored in forb_t::requests tree.
  * 
  */
 struct forb_request {
-       CORBA_unsigned_long request_id;
-       CDR_Codec cdr_request;
-       CDR_Codec *cdr_reply;
-       gavl_node_t node;
-       forb_object obj;
+       CORBA_unsigned_long request_id; /**< Numeric ID of this request. Used to match replies agains this request. */
+       FORB_CDR_Codec cdr_request;     /**< Buffer for the request serialization. */
+       FORB_CDR_Codec *cdr_reply;      /**< Buffer with received reply. */
+       gavl_node_t node;       /**< forb_t::requests node */
+       forb_object obj;        /**< Object being requested. */
        struct forb_env *env;   /**< Where to store exception returned in reply */
        forb_syncobj_t reply_ready; /**< Synchronization object for waiting for reply */
        forb_syncobj_t *reply_processed; /**< Synchronization object for receiver thread to wait for stub. */
@@ -73,8 +133,5 @@ void
 forb_request_wait_for_reply(forb_request_t *req);
 void
 forb_request_signal_processed(forb_request_t *req);
-void
-forb_request_send(forb_request_t *req, CORBA_Environment *env);
-
 
 #endif