1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 3 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 4 * distributed with this work for additional information 5 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 6 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 7 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 8 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 9 * 10 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 11 * 12 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 13 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 14 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 15 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 16 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 17 * under the License. 18 * 19 */ 20 package org.apache.mina.filter.codec; 21 22 /** 23 * Provides {@link ProtocolEncoder} and {@link ProtocolDecoder} which translates 24 * binary or protocol specific data into message object and vice versa. 25 * <p> 26 * Please refer to 27 * <a href="../../../../../xref-examples/org/apache/mina/examples/reverser/ReverseProtocolProvider.html"><code>ReverserProtocolProvider</code></a> 28 * example. 29 * 30 * @author The Apache Directory Project (mina-dev@directory.apache.org) 31 * @version $Rev: 555855 $, $Date: 2007-07-13 12:19:00 +0900 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) $ 32 */ 33 public interface ProtocolCodecFactory { 34 /** 35 * Returns a new (or reusable) instance of {@link ProtocolEncoder} which 36 * encodes message objects into binary or protocol-specific data. 37 */ 38 ProtocolEncoder getEncoder() throws Exception; 39 40 /** 41 * Returns a new (or reusable) instance of {@link ProtocolDecoder} which 42 * decodes binary or protocol-specific data into message objects. 43 */ 44 ProtocolDecoder getDecoder() throws Exception; 45 }