com.gigaspaces.lrmi

Interface Peer

All Known Subinterfaces:

ClientPeer, ServerPeer

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseClientPeer, BaseServerPeer, ConnectionResource, CPeer, SPeer

public interface Peer

Peer is an abstraction for a connection endpoint, similar to a socket in the TCP/IP world. Peer is extended by the ClientPeer and ServerPeer interfaces. Each LRMI logical connection is abstracted by a pair of ClientPeer and ServerPeer. Physical connections may be shared (this is implementation dependent). Each connection has a timeout attribute, for network oriented operations (connect, invoke, read). Each connection may have a security context property. A security context is an object that may be passed by the protocol adapter provider from a client peer to a server peer in an invocation. A client peer usually sets the security context of its peer, and the server can retreieve it. Sophisticated protocol adapter implementations can use a caching mechanism of the security context on the server peer, forwarding a new security context only upon change of the client security context.

Since:

4.0

Author:

Igor Goldenberg

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	disconnect() Disconnects, effectively closes the connection.
<C extends ClientPeer> ProtocolAdapter<C>	getProtocolAdapter() Returns the protocol adapter that created this peer.
boolean	isConnected() Checks if the current peer is in 'connected' state.

Method Detail

isConnected

boolean isConnected()

Checks if the current peer is in 'connected' state.

Returns:

true if connected, false otherwise.

disconnect

void disconnect()

Disconnects, effectively closes the connection.

Throws:

RemoteException - if there was a problem with closing the connection.

getProtocolAdapter

<C extends ClientPeer> ProtocolAdapter<C> getProtocolAdapter()

Returns the protocol adapter that created this peer.

Returns:

the protocol adapter that created this peer.