//
//   COMPONENT_NAME: somu
//
//   ORIGINS: 27
//
//
//   10H9767, 10H9769  (C) COPYRIGHT International Business Machines Corp. 1992,1994
//   All Rights Reserved
//   Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
//   US Government Users Restricted Rights - Use, duplication or
//   disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.
//
//#  @(#) somu/snglicls.idl 2.17 9/1/94 17:46:03 [9/21/94 17:54:24]
#ifndef snglicls_idl
#define snglicls_idl
#include <somcls.idl>
interface SOMMSingleInstance  
			  	 : SOMClass
// This class is a metaclass for classes which wish to enforce a
// single instance rule.  That is, classes which specify this class
// as their metaclass will only be allowed to have a single instance.
//
// For example, if a class named dog specified this class as its
// metaclass, only one dog object could be instantiated. Repeated
// calls to _somNew on the dog class would simply return the same
// dog repeatedly.
//
// There are two ways to retrieve the single intance of the using
// class:
//
//  1) Invoke sommGetSingleInstance on the class object of the using class.
//     This is the preferred way.
//
//  2) Invoke somNew or somNewNoInit on the class object of the using class.
//
{ 
	SOMObject sommGetSingleInstance();
	// Returns the single instance of the using class.
	// If there isn't one, then it creates one first with somNew.
	void sommFreeSingleInstance();
	// If there isn't one, then the method does nothing.
	// Frees single instance of the class
	#ifdef __SOMIDL__
	implementation {
		callstyle=idl;
   		releaseorder: sommGetSingleInstance, sommFreeSingleInstance;   
	   	majorversion = 2;
	   	minorversion = 1;
   		filestem = snglicls;
	};
	#endif /* __SOMIDL__ */
};
#endif





















































