/** * 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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public interface IAcceptor extends IContainer