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Interface ConnectionDispatcher

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChatServer, GameServer, JMessenger, NetConnectionServer.DefaultDispatcher

public interface ConnectionDispatcher

used by a NetConnectionServer object to create a Thread that handles incoming connections

Author:

Holger Antelmann

See Also:

NetConnectionServer, NetConnectionHandler, NetConnection

Method Summary

NetConnection	createConnection(Socket socket) produces a NetConnection based on the given socket.
NetConnectionHandler	createHandler(NetConnection con) produces a NetConnectionHandler which will be started in a new Thread (created by the NetConnectionServer's ThreadFactory) to handle the given NetConnection and listens to messages.
Handshake	getHandshake() returns a signature object used to identify the desired connection type handled by this ConnectionDispatcher object

Method Detail

createConnection

NetConnection createConnection(Socket socket)
                               throws IOException

produces a NetConnection based on the given socket.

Throws:

IOException

See Also:

SocketConnection.createServerConnection(Socket, Handshake)

createHandler

NetConnectionHandler createHandler(NetConnection con)

produces a NetConnectionHandler which will be started in a new Thread (created by the NetConnectionServer's ThreadFactory) to handle the given NetConnection and listens to messages. Typically, the returned object could be a MessageDelegator.

See Also:

MessageDelegator

getHandshake

Handshake getHandshake()

returns a signature object used to identify the desired connection type handled by this ConnectionDispatcher object