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	description: "[
		Provides an interface for an entry in the space.
		Only objects that inherit from EGS_ENTRY can be written or
		accessed in the space via the EGS_SPACE_PROXY interface.
	]"

	legal: "See notice at end of class."
	status: "See notice at end of class."
	date: "$Date$"
	revision: "$Revision$"

class

	EGS_ENTRY

inherit

	EGS_EXTERNAL_CPP_OBJECT

create

	make_from_external


feature -- Queries

	space_class_name: STRING is
	 		-- A string representing the specific entry type.
	 	local
	 		p: POINTER
		do
			p := cpp_get_class_name (object_ptr)
			if  p /= default_pointer then
				create Result.make_from_c (p);
			end
		end


feature {NONE} -- externals

	cpp_delete (obj_ptr: POINTER) is
		external
			"C++ inline use <gigaspaces.h>"
		alias
			"delete ((OpenSpaces::IEntry*)$obj_ptr)"
		end

	cpp_get_class_name (obj_ptr: POINTER): POINTER is
		external
			"C++ inline use <gigaspaces.h>"
		alias
			"((OpenSpaces::IEntry*)$obj_ptr)->GetSpaceClassName()"
		end

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	library:	"egigs-cpp: Library for accessing the GigaSpaces platform, POCO library based implementation."
	copyright:	"Copyright (c) 2008, Eiffel Software and others"
	license:	"Eiffel Forum License v2 (see http://www.eiffel.com/licensing/forum.txt)"
	source: "[
			 Eiffel Software
			 356 Storke Road, Goleta, CA 93117 USA
			 Telephone 805-685-1006, Fax 805-685-6869
			 Website http://www.eiffel.com
			 Customer support http://support.eiffel.com
		]"

end