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25
26 package java.rmi.server;
27
28 import java.io;
29 import java.net;
30
31 /**
32 * An <code>RMIClientSocketFactory</code> instance is used by the RMI runtime
33 * in order to obtain client sockets for RMI calls. A remote object can be
34 * associated with an <code>RMIClientSocketFactory</code> when it is
35 * created/exported via the constructors or <code>exportObject</code> methods
36 * of <code>java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject</code> and
37 * <code>java.rmi.activation.Activatable</code> .
38 *
39 * <p>An <code>RMIClientSocketFactory</code> instance associated with a remote
40 * object will be downloaded to clients when the remote object's reference is
41 * transmitted in an RMI call. This <code>RMIClientSocketFactory</code> will
42 * be used to create connections to the remote object for remote method calls.
43 *
44 * <p>An <code>RMIClientSocketFactory</code> instance can also be associated
45 * with a remote object registry so that clients can use custom socket
46 * communication with a remote object registry.
47 *
48 * <p>An implementation of this interface should be serializable and
49 * should implement {@link Object#equals} to return <code>true</code> when
50 * passed an instance that represents the same (functionally equivalent)
51 * client socket factory, and <code>false</code> otherwise (and it should also
52 * implement {@link Object#hashCode} consistently with its
53 * <code>Object.equals</code> implementation).
54 *
55 * @author Ann Wollrath
56 * @author Peter Jones
57 * @since 1.2
58 * @see java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject
59 * @see java.rmi.activation.Activatable
60 * @see java.rmi.registry.LocateRegistry
61 */
62 public interface RMIClientSocketFactory {
63
64 /**
65 * Create a client socket connected to the specified host and port.
66 * @param host the host name
67 * @param port the port number
68 * @return a socket connected to the specified host and port.
69 * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs during socket creation
70 * @since 1.2
71 */
72 public Socket createSocket(String host, int port)
73 throws IOException;
74 }
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