javax.management.remote.rmi

Interface RMIServer

All Superinterfaces:

Remote

public interface RMIServer
extends Remote

RMI interface for obtaining an instance of an RMIConnection. An implementation of this interface exists for each RMI connector.

Since:

1.5

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getVersion() Returns the version of the RMI connection protocol used by this server.
RMIConnection	newClient(Object credentials) Constructs and returns a new RMI connection using the specified authentication credentials.

Method Detail

getVersion

String getVersion()
                  throws RemoteException

Returns the version of the RMI connection protocol used by this server. The returned string takes the form of protocol-version implementation-name where protocol-version is a series of two or more non-negative integers, separated by a decimal point (.) (currently 1.0) and implementation-name is the string "GNU Classpath" followed by the version of GNU Classpath in use.

Returns:

the string specified above.

Throws:

RemoteException - if there is a problem with the transfer of the string via RMI.

newClient

RMIConnection newClient(Object credentials)
                        throws IOException

Constructs and returns a new RMI connection using the specified authentication credentials. Each client calls this method to obtain a connection to the server.

Parameters:

credentials - a user-defined object passed to the server to authenticate the client. May be null.

Returns:

the new connection.

Throws:

IOException - if the new connection can not be created or exported, or an error occurs in the RMI transmission.

SecurityException - if the client could not be authenticated correctly using the supplied credientials.