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Interface Connection

All Known Subinterfaces:

RmiConnection

All Known Implementing Classes:

HttpRmiClientConnection, InMemoryRequestConnection, InMemoryResponseConnection, JdkRmiClientConnection, NioTcpRmiClientConnection, NioTcpRmiServerConnection, NioTcpUnicastConnection, ServletRmiConnection, SocketConnection, SocketRmiConnection

public interface Connection

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

Author:

Yanick Duchesne

Method Summary

Methods

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

Method Detail

send

void send(Object o)
          throws IOException,
                 RemoteException

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

Parameters:

o - an Object.

Throws:

IOException

RemoteException

receive

Object receive()
               throws IOException,
                      ClassNotFoundException,
                      RemoteException

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

Returns:

an Object.

Throws:

IOException

ClassNotFoundException

RemoteException

close

void close()

Closes this connection.

getServerAddress

ServerAddress getServerAddress()

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

Returns:

a ServerAddress.