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+/* ValueExp.java -- Represents values that can be passed to queries.
+   Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU Classpath.
+
+GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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+any later version.
+
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+
+Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
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+
+As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
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+independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
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+or based on this library.  If you modify this library, you may extend
+this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
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+exception statement from your version. */
+
+package javax.management;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+/**
+ * Represents values that may be passed as arguments to
+ * {@link QueryExp}s.  Strings, numbers and bean attributes
+ * are all valid argument types for query expressions, and
+ * so should be represented as implementations of this
+ * interface.
+ *
+ * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org)
+ * @since 1.5
+ */
+public interface ValueExp
+  extends Serializable
+{
+
+  /**
+   * Applies the value expression to the specified management bean.
+   *
+   * @param name the name of the management bean.
+   * @return the value expression.
+   * @throws BadStringOperationException if an invalid string
+   *                                     operation is used by
+   *                                     the value expression.
+   * @throws BadBinaryOpValueExpException if an invalid expression
+   *                                      is used by the value expression.
+   * @throws BadAttributeValueExpException if an invalid attribute
+   *                                       is used by the value expression.
+   * @throws InvalidApplicationException if the value expression is applied
+   *                                     to the wrong type of bean.
+   */
+  ValueExp apply(ObjectName name)
+    throws BadStringOperationException, BadBinaryOpValueExpException,
+           BadAttributeValueExpException, InvalidApplicationException;
+
+  /**
+   * Changes the {@link MBeanServer} on which this query is performed.
+   *
+   * @param server the new server to use.
+   * @deprecated This method is superfluous, as the {@link ValueExp}
+   *             can access the server using
+   *             {@link QueryEval#getMBeanServer()}.
+   */
+  void setMBeanServer(MBeanServer server);
+
+}