/**
* Copyright (c) 2004 - 2011 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.ILocationAware.Location;
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.
*
* 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.
*
* This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients. Service providers must extend the abstract
* {@link Acceptor} class.
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* @author Eike Stepper
*/
public interface IAcceptor extends IContainer, Closeable
{
/**
* Returns an array of the connectors that have been accepted by this acceptor and not been closed since.
*/
public IConnector[] getAcceptedConnectors();
}