/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ package org.apache.smscserver; import org.apache.smscserver.smsclet.SmscException; /** * This is the starting point of all the servers. It invokes a new listener thread. <code>Server</code> implementation * is used to create the server socket and handle client connection. * * @author hceylan */ public interface SmscServer { /** * Returns the the SMSC Server Context. * * @return the SMSC Server Context */ SmscServerContext getServerContext(); /** * Get the server status. * * @return true if the server is stopped */ boolean isStopped(); /** * Is the server suspended * * @return true if the server is suspended */ boolean isSuspended(); /** * Resume the server handler */ void resume(); /** * Start the server. Open a new listener thread. * * @throws SmscException */ void start() throws SmscException; /** * Stop the server. Stop the listener thread. */ void stop(); /** * Suspend further requests */ void suspend(); }