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* Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 g-Eclipse Consortium
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Initial development of the original code was made for the
* g-Eclipse project founded by European Union
* project number: FP6-IST-034327 http://www.geclipse.eu/
*
* Contributors:
* Thomas Koeckerbauer GUP, JKU - initial API and implementation
*****************************************************************************/
package eu.geclipse.core;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
/**
* Interface for bidirectional connections.
*/
public interface IBidirectionalConnection {
/**
* Returns the InputStream of the connection.
* @return the InputStream of the connection.
* @throws IOException thrown if a connection error occurs.
*/
public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException;
/**
* Returns the OutputStream of the connection.
* @return the OutputStream of the connection.
* @throws IOException thrown if a connection error occurs.
*/
public OutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException;
/**
* Closes the connection.
*/
public void close();
}