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// Author: Marek Szermutzky (MSzermutzky@de.ibm.com) PEP#139 Stage2
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#ifndef Pegasus_CIMClientConnectionManager_h
#define Pegasus_CIMClientConnectionManager_h

#include <Pegasus/Common/Config.h>		// get platform specific definitions
#include <Pegasus/Common/String.h>		// for usage of class String out of Pegasus/Common
#include <Pegasus/Client/CIMClientRep.h>
#include <Pegasus/Client/Linkage.h>

PEGASUS_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

class PEGASUS_CLIENT_LINKAGE CIMClientConnectionManager
{

public:

	// class constructor
	CIMClientConnectionManager() { };
	
	// virtual class destructor has to be implemented by specific implementation
	virtual ~CIMClientConnectionManager() { };

	// this function shall return the specified connection (task of specific ClientConnectionManager)
	// of no connection is found, return NULL
	virtual CIMClientRep* getConnection(
								const String& host,
								const String& port,
								const CIMNamespaceName& nameSpace) = 0;

};

PEGASUS_NAMESPACE_END

#endif  // Pegasus_CIMClientConnectionManager_h