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+/* RMIServer.java -- RMI object for connecting to an RMI JMX connector.
+   Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU Classpath.
+
+GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
+Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+02110-1301 USA.
+
+Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
+making a combined work based on this library.  Thus, the terms and
+conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole
+combination.
+
+As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
+permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
+executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
+modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under
+terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked
+independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
+module.  An independent module is a module which is not derived from
+or based on this library.  If you modify this library, you may extend
+this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
+obligated to do so.  If you do not wish to do so, delete this
+exception statement from your version. */
+
+package javax.management.remote.rmi;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import java.rmi.Remote;
+import java.rmi.RemoteException;
+
+/**
+ * RMI interface for obtaining an instance of an
+ * {@link RMIConnection}.  An implementation of this
+ * interface exists for each RMI connector.
+ *
+ * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org)
+ * @since 1.5
+ */
+public interface RMIServer
+  extends Remote
+{
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the version of the RMI connection protocol used
+   * by this server.  The returned string takes the form of
+   * <emph>protocol-version implementation-name</emph> where
+   * <emph>protocol-version</emph> is a series of two or more
+   * non-negative integers, separated by a decimal point (.)
+   * (currently {@code 1.0}) and <emph>implementation-name</emph>
+   * is the string {@code "GNU Classpath"} followed by the version
+   * of GNU Classpath in use.
+   *
+   * @return the string specified above.
+   * @throws RemoteException if there is a problem with the transfer
+   *                         of the string via RMI.
+   */
+  String getVersion()
+    throws RemoteException;
+
+  /**
+   * Constructs and returns a new RMI connection using the specified
+   * authentication credentials.  Each client calls this method to
+   * obtain a connection to the server.
+   *
+   * @param credentials a user-defined object passed to the server
+   *                    to authenticate the client.  May be {@code null}.
+   * @return the new connection.
+   * @throws IOException if the new connection can not be created or
+   *                     exported, or an error occurs in the RMI transmission.
+   * @throws SecurityException if the client could not be authenticated
+   *                           correctly using the supplied credientials.
+   */
+  RMIConnection newClient(Object credentials)
+    throws IOException;
+}