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The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

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/*
 * Copyright 2012 The Netty Project
 *
 * The Netty Project licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
 * version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
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 */
package org.jboss.netty.channel;


/**
 * Receives and processes the terminal downstream {@link ChannelEvent}s.
 * 
 * A {@link ChannelSink} is an internal component which is supposed to be
 * implemented by a transport provider.  Most users will not see this type
 * in their code.
 *
 * @apiviz.uses org.jboss.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline - - sends events upstream
 */
public interface ChannelSink {

    /**
     * Invoked by {@link ChannelPipeline} when a downstream {@link ChannelEvent}
     * has reached its terminal (the head of the pipeline).
     */
    void eventSunk(ChannelPipeline pipeline, ChannelEvent e) throws Exception;

    /**
     * Invoked by {@link ChannelPipeline} when an exception was raised while
     * one of its {@link ChannelHandler}s process a {@link ChannelEvent}.
     */
    void exceptionCaught(ChannelPipeline pipeline, ChannelEvent e, ChannelPipelineException cause) throws Exception;

    /**
     * Execute the given {@link Runnable} later in the io-thread.
     * Some implementation may not support this and just execute it directly.
     */
    ChannelFuture execute(ChannelPipeline pipeline, Runnable task);
}