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package gnu.CORBA.interfaces;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;

/**
 * This class produces sockets for serving and submitting CORBA requests. The
 * socket factory can be set using {@link gnuOrb.setSocketFactory()} for
 * producting all sockets for that ORB. This is needed for using secure sockets,
 * for implementing the desired timeout policies, for HTTP tunnels and in some
 * other similar cases. While such functionality is provided by near all
 * existing CORBA implementations, no standard mechanism is defined.
 * 
 * The socket factory may need to put additional information to the IORs of the
 * objects, released by the ORB. Because of this reason, this interface extends
 * IORInterceptorOperations.
 * 
 * @author Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania (AudriusA@Bioinformatics.org)
 */
public interface SocketFactory
{
  /**
   * The name of the ORB property that forces the ORB to use the socket
   * factory class, the name of that (String) is the value of this property.
   */
  final String PROPERTY = "gnu.CORBA.SocketFactory";
  
  /**
   * Create a server socket that should serve remote invocations on the given
   * port. The ORB may use this socket to serve either one or more objects.
   * 
   * @param port the port, on that the socket should be listening for requests.
   * The port policy can be controlled by {@link gnuPortManager}.
   * 
   * @throws IOException if the socket cannot be created on the given port due
   * any reasons. The ORB may try to open the socket on another port, calling
   * this method with the different parameter.
   */
  ServerSocket createServerSocket(int port)
    throws IOException;
  
  /**
   * Create a client socket that should send a request to the remote side. When
   * returned, the socket should be opened and ready to communicate.
   * 
   * @param port the port, on that the socket should be openend. The port is
   * usually part of the internet profile.
   * 
   * @throws IOException if the socket cannot be created on the given port due
   * any reasons. The ORB may try to open the socket on another port, calling
   * this method with the different parameter.
   */
  Socket createClientSocket(String host, int port)
    throws IOException;

}