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Interface Connection

All Known Subinterfaces:

RmiConnection

All Known Implementing Classes:

HttpRmiClientConnection, JdkRmiClientConnection, NioTcpRmiClientConnection, NioTcpRmiServerConnection, ServletRmiConnection, SocketConnection, SocketRmiConnection, UDPConnection, UdpRmiConnection

public interface Connection

Specifies "connection" behavior: in this case, connections that send and receive objects over the wire.

Author:

Yanick Duchesne

Copyright:

Copyright © 2002-2003 Sapia Open Source Software. All Rights Reserved.

License:

Read the license.txt file of the jar or visit the license page at the Sapia OSS web site

Method Summary

void	close() Closes this connection.
ServerAddress	getServerAddress() Returns "address" of the server with which this connection communicates.
java.lang.Object	receive() Receives an object from the server with which this connection communicates.
void	send(java.lang.Object o) Sends the given object to the server with which this connection communicates.

Method Detail

send

void send(java.lang.Object o)
          throws java.io.IOException,
                 java.rmi.RemoteException

Sends the given object to the server with which this connection communicates.

Parameters:

an - Object.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

java.rmi.RemoteException

receive

java.lang.Object receive()
                         throws java.io.IOException,
                                java.lang.ClassNotFoundException,
                                java.rmi.RemoteException

Receives an object from the server with which this connection communicates.

Returns:

an Object.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

java.rmi.RemoteException

close

void close()

Closes this connection.

getServerAddress

ServerAddress getServerAddress()

Returns "address" of the server with which this connection communicates.

Returns:

a ServerAddress.