- /*
- * @(#)RMIServer.java 1.19 03/12/19
- *
- * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
- * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
- */
-
- package javax.management.remote.rmi;
-
- import java.io.IOException;
- import java.rmi.Remote;
- import java.rmi.RemoteException;
-
- /**
- * <p>RMI object used to establish connections to an RMI connector.
- * There is one Remote object implementing this interface for each RMI
- * connector.</p>
- *
- * <p>User code does not usually refer to this interface. It is
- * specified as part of the public API so that different
- * implementations of that API will interoperate.</p>
- *
- * @since 1.5
- * @since.unbundled 1.0
- */
- public interface RMIServer extends Remote {
- /**
- * <p>The version of the RMI Connector Protocol understood by this
- * connector server. This is a string with the following format:</p>
- *
- * <pre>
- * <em>protocol-version</em> <em>implementation-name</em>
- * </pre>
- *
- * <p>The <code><em>protocol-version</em></code> is a series of
- * two or more non-negative integers separated by periods
- * (<code>.</code>). An implementation of the version described
- * by this documentation must use the string <code>1.0</code>
- * here.</p>
- *
- * <p>After the protocol version there must be a space, followed
- * by the implementation name. The format of the implementation
- * name is unspecified. It is recommended that it include an
- * implementation version number. An implementation can use an
- * empty string as its implementation name, for example for
- * security reasons.</p>
- *
- * @return a string with the format described here.
- *
- * @exception RemoteException if there is a communication
- * exception during the remote method call.
- */
- public String getVersion() throws RemoteException;
-
- /**
- * <p>Makes a new connection through this RMI connector. Each
- * remote client calls this method to obtain a new RMI object
- * representing its connection.</p>
- *
- * @param credentials this object specifies the user-defined credentials
- * to be passed in to the server in order to authenticate the user before
- * creating the <code>RMIConnection</code>. Can be null.
- *
- * @return the newly-created connection object.
- *
- * @exception IOException if the new client object cannot be
- * created or exported, or if there is a communication exception
- * during the remote method call.
- *
- * @exception SecurityException if the given credentials do not
- * allow the server to authenticate the caller successfully.
- */
- public RMIConnection newClient(Object credentials) throws IOException;
- }