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The UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java is a fast, comprehensive, and easy-to-use Java API for communicating with LDAP directory servers and performing related tasks like reading and writing LDIF, encoding and decoding data using base64 and ASN.1 BER, and performing secure communication. This package contains the Commercial Edition of the LDAP SDK, which includes all of the general-purpose functionality contained in the Standard Edition, plus additional functionality specific to UnboundID server products.

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/*
 * Copyright 2009-2016 UnboundID Corp.
 * All Rights Reserved.
 */
/*
 * Copyright (C) 2009-2016 UnboundID Corp.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2 only)
 * or the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv2.1 only)
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
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package com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.migrate.ldapjdk;



import java.net.Socket;

import com.unboundid.util.Extensible;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafety;
import com.unboundid.util.ThreadSafetyLevel;



/**
 * This interface defines a method that can be used to construct the socket to
 * use when communicating with the directory server.
 * 


 * This class is primarily intended to be used in the process of updating
 * applications which use the Netscape Directory SDK for Java to switch to or
 * coexist with the UnboundID LDAP SDK for Java.  For applications not written
 * using the Netscape Directory SDK for Java, the standard Java socket factory
 * may be used directly without the need for the {@code LDAPSocketFactory}
 * interface.
 */
@Extensible()
@ThreadSafety(level=ThreadSafetyLevel.INTERFACE_THREADSAFE)
public interface LDAPSocketFactory
{
  /**
   * Creates a socket to use when connecting to the directory sever.
   *
   * @param  host  The address of the server to which the socket should be
   *               connected.
   * @param  port  The port of the server to which the socket should be
   *               connected.
   *
   * @return  The connected socket to use to communicate with the directory
   *          server.
   *
   * @throws  LDAPException  If a problem occurs while establishing the
   *                         connection.
   */
  Socket makeSocket(final String host, final int port)
         throws LDAPException;
}