fining the IDL interfaces</h4></li>

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interface StockBroker
{
  /// Factory operation to return StockNameConsumer object reference.
  StockNameConsumer get_consumer_notifier ();

  /// Connects the broker to a supplied Quoter object reference.
  void connect_quoter_info  (in StockQuoter c);

  /// Disconnects a the quoter connection.
  StockQuoter disconnect_quoter_info ();

  /// Gets the current quoter connection.
  StockQuoter get_connection_quoter_info ();

  /// Shutdown the object and terminate t