Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Name

RMISocketFactory

Synopsis

This abstract class provides an interface for the RMI internals to use to create sockets for both client and server communications. It extends both the RMIClientSocketFactory and the RMIServerSocketFactory interfaces, so it can create either Sockets for clients, or ServerSockets for servers. The factory maintains a RMIFailureHandler that it uses to deal with failures encountered while attempting to create sockets. If an error is encountered while creating a socket, the failure() method on the current RMIFailureHandler is called. If the return value is true, then the RMISocketFactory attempts the socket creation again, otherwise the factory gives up and throws an IOException.

Client sockets are created using the createSocket() method (inherited from RMIClientSocketFactory), while server sockets are created using the createServerSocket() method (inherited from RMIServerSocketFactory). The current RMISocketFactory for the runtime is accessed using the static getSocketFactory() and setSocketFactory() methods. The RMIFailureHandler for the current factory is accessed using the getFailureHandler() and setFailureHandler() methods.

                  
public abstract class RMISocketFactory implements RMIClientSocketFactory, RMIServerSocketFactory {
// Public Constructors
   public RMISocketFactory();  
// Public Class Methods
   public static RMISocketFactory getDefaultSocketFactory(); ...