activeio-core/src/main/java/org/apache/activeio/packet/sync/SyncChannelServer.java

/**
 *
 * Copyright 2005-2006 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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 *
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package org.apache.activeio.packet.sync;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.activeio.Channel;
import org.apache.activeio.ChannelServer;



/**
 * A SynchChannelServer object provides an <code>accept</code> method to synchronously 
 * accept and create {@see org.apache.activeio.Channel} objects.
 * 
 * @version $Revision$
 */
public interface SyncChannelServer extends ChannelServer {

    static final public long NO_WAIT_TIMEOUT=0;
	static final public long WAIT_FOREVER_TIMEOUT=-1;	
	
	public Channel accept(long timeout) throws IOException;
	
}