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/*
* Server.java February 2001
*
* Copyright (C) 2001, Niall Gallagher
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
* License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This library 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General
* Public License along with this library; if not, write to the
* Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
* Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
package org.simpleframework.transport;
/**
* The Server interface represents a handler that is
* used to process Socket objects. Implementations of
* this object will read HTTP requests for the provided sockets and
* dispatch the requests for processing by the core protocol handler.
*
* The intended use of a Server is that it be used in
* conjunction with a Container object, which acts as the
* primary protocol handler for a server. Typically the server will
* deliver callbacks to a container with both Request and
* Response objects encapsulating the transaction.
*
* Core responsibilities of the server are to manage connections,
* to ensure that all HTTP requests are collected, and to dispatch the
* collected requests to an appropriate handler. It is also required
* to manage multiplexing such that many connections can be processed
* concurrently without a high latency period.
*
* @author Niall Gallagher
*/
public interface Server {
/**
* Used to process the Socket which is a full duplex
* communication link that may contain several HTTP requests. This
* will be used to read the requests from the Socket
* and to pass these requests to a Container for
* processing.
*
* Typical usage of this method is to accept multiple sockets
* objects, each representing a unique HTTP channel to the client,
* and process requests from those sockets concurrently.
*
* @param socket this is the connected HTTP socket to process
*/
public void process(Socket socket) throws Exception;
/**
* This method is used to stop the Server such that
* it will accept no more sockets. Stopping the server ensures
* that all resources occupied will be released. This is required
* so that all threads are stopped, and all memory is released.
*
* Typically this method is called once all connections to the
* server have been stopped. As a final act of shutting down the
* entire server all threads must be stopped, this allows collection
* of unused memory and the closing of file and socket resources.
*/
public void stop() throws Exception;
}