org.xlattice
Interface Acceptor

public interface Acceptor

An Acceptor is used by a Node or Peer to accept connection requests. It is an advertisement for a service within a Overlay, that is, within a given address space and using a particular transport protocol. An Acceptor is an abstraction of a TCP/IP ServerSocket. It is a single EndPoint whose Address may be well known. Other entities on the network send messages to the Acceptor in order to establish Connections. The Acceptor may in some cases NOT be one of the EndPoints involved in the new Connection; the Connection might be between the requesting remote EndPoint and a new, ephemeral local EndPoint. The transport protocol understood by the Acceptor need not be the same as the transport protocol of Connections created. That is, the new Connection need not be in the same Overlay as the Acceptor.

Author:

Jim Dixon

Method Summary

Connection	accept()
void	close()
EndPoint	getEndPoint()
boolean	isClosed()

Method Detail

accept

Connection accept()
                  throws java.io.IOException

Throws:

java.io.IOException

close

void close()
           throws java.io.IOException

Throws:

java.io.IOException

isClosed

boolean isClosed()

getEndPoint

EndPoint getEndPoint()