/**
* Copyright (c) 2004 - 2009 Eike Stepper (Berlin, Germany) and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Eike Stepper - initial API and implementation
*/
package org.eclipse.net4j.acceptor;
import org.eclipse.net4j.connector.IConnector;
import org.eclipse.net4j.util.collection.Closeable;
import org.eclipse.net4j.util.container.IContainer;
import org.eclipse.spi.net4j.Acceptor;
/**
* Accepts incoming connection requests from {@link Location#CLIENT client} {@link IConnector connectors} and creates
* the appropriate {@link Location#SERVER server} connectors.
* <p>
* Since the process of accepting connection requests is heavily dependent on the implementation of the respective
* connectors the only public API is introspection and notification.
* <p>
* This interface is <b>not</b> intended to be implemented by clients. Service providers <b>must</b> extend the abstract
* {@link Acceptor} class.
* <p>
* <dt><b>Class Diagram:</b></dt>
* <dd><img src="doc-files/Acceptors.png" title="Diagram Acceptors" border="0" usemap="#Acceptors.png"/></dd>
* <p>
* <MAP NAME="Acceptors.png"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="10,8,99,58" HREF="IAcceptor.html"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT"
* COORDS="289,8,378,58" HREF="IConnector.html"> </MAP>
* <p>
* <dt><b>Sequence Diagram:</b></dt>
* <dd><img src="doc-files/ConnectionProcess.jpg" title="Connection Process" border="0"
* usemap="#ConnectionProcess.jpg"/></dd>
* <p>
* <MAP NAME="ConnectionProcess.jpg"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="146,136,265,165" HREF="IConnector.html"> <AREA
* SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="485,75,564,105" HREF="IAcceptor.html"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="296,325,414,355"
* HREF="IConnector.html"> <AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="64,426,444,506" HREF="ConnectorState.html#CONNECTING"> <AREA
* SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="64,516,444,596" HREF="ConnectorState.html#NEGOTIATING"> </MAP>
*
* @author Eike Stepper
*/
public interface IAcceptor extends IContainer<IConnector>, Closeable
{
/**
* Returns an array of the connectors that have been accepted by this acceptor and not been closed since.
*/
public IConnector[] getAcceptedConnectors();
}
