01: /*
02: * ========================================================================
03: *
04: * Copyright 2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
05: *
06: * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
07: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
08: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
09: *
10: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
11: *
12: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
13: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
14: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
15: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
16: * limitations under the License.
17: *
18: * ========================================================================
19: */
20: package org.apache.cactus.spi.client.connector;
21:
22: /**
23: * Hold protocol-related information that need to be exchanged during the
24: * lifecycle of the
25: * {@link org.apache.cactus.spi.client.connector.ProtocolHandler}.
26: * For example the HTTP protocol handler needs to pass the HTTP connection
27: * around to the different lifecycle methods. However, as this kind of state
28: * information is highly protocol dependent, we needed to abstract out the
29: * state information, hence this tagging interface. The implementation is free
30: * to have any kind of methods. These methods will only be used in the
31: * {@link org.apache.cactus.spi.client.connector.ProtocolHandler} implementation
32: * classes.
33: *
34: * @version $Id: ProtocolState.java 238991 2004-05-22 11:34:50Z vmassol $
35: * @since 1.6
36: */
37: public interface ProtocolState {
38: }
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