1 /***
2 *
3 * Copyright 2004 Hiram Chirino
4 *
5 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
6 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
7 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
8 *
9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10 *
11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15 * limitations under the License.
16 */
17 package org.activeio;
18
19 import java.io.IOException;
20 import java.net.URI;
21
22 /***
23 * SynchChannelFactory objects can create {@see org.activeio.SynchChannel}
24 * and {@see org.activeio.SynchChannelServer} objects.
25 *
26 * @version $Revision$
27 */
28 public interface SynchChannelFactory {
29
30 /***
31 * Opens a connection to server.
32 *
33 * @param location
34 * @return
35 */
36 public SynchChannel openSynchChannel(URI location) throws IOException;
37
38 /***
39 * Binds a server at the URI location.
40 *
41 * @param location
42 * @return
43 */
44 public SynchChannelServer bindSynchChannel(URI location) throws IOException;
45
46 }