/*
Copyright (c) 2007 Health Market Science, Inc.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License.
This library 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
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
USA
You can contact Health Market Science at info@healthmarketscience.com
or at the following address:
Health Market Science
2700 Horizon Drive
Suite 200
King of Prussia, PA 19406
*/
package com.healthmarketscience.rmiio;
/**
* Interface common to most remote client implementations.
*
* @author James Ahlborn
*/
public interface RemoteClient {
/** The default retry policy used if none is specified by the client. */
public static final RemoteRetry DEFAULT_RETRY = RemoteRetry.SIMPLE;
/**
* Sets the client side RemoteRetry policy to use for the underlying remote
* communication layer. For most client side implementations, this method
* must be called before any other calls on this client object (any calls to
* this method after one of those methods is called will have no affect).
*
* @param newRemoteRetry the new RemoteRetry policy to use for remote
* communication. {@code null} causes the
* {@link #DEFAULT_RETRY} policy to be used.
*/
public void setRemoteRetry(RemoteRetry newRemoteRetry);
}