Tomcat example source code file (ChannelListener.java)

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The Tomcat ChannelListener.java source code

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package org.apache.catalina.tribes;

import java.io.Serializable;
/**
 * 
 * <p>Title: ChannelListener
 
 * 
 * <p>Description: An interface to listens to incoming messages from a channel 
 
 * When a message is received, the Channel will invoke the channel listener in a conditional sequence.
 * <code>if ( listener.accept(msg,sender) ) listener.messageReceived(msg,sender);

 * A ChannelListener implementation MUST NOT return true on <code>accept(Serializable, Member)
 * if it doesn't intend to process the message. The channel can this way track whether a message
 * was processed by an above application or if it was just received and forgot about, a featuer required
 * to support message-response(RPC) calls<br>
 * 
 * @author Filip Hanik
 * @version 1.0
 */

public interface ChannelListener {

    /**
     * Receive a message from the channel
     * @param msg Serializable
     * @param sender - the source of the message
     */
    public void messageReceived(Serializable msg, Member sender);

    /**
     * Invoked by the channel to determine if the listener will process this message or not.
     * @param msg Serializable
     * @param sender Member
     * @return boolean
     */
    public boolean accept(Serializable msg, Member sender);

    /**
     * 
     * @param listener Object
     * @return boolean
     * @see Object#equals(Object)
     */
    public boolean equals(Object listener);

    /**
     * 
     * @return int
     * @see Object#hashCode(int)
     */
    public int hashCode();

}