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+/*
+ * Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Sun designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
+ * This code 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
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
+ * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
+ * have any questions.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * A Java API for Stream Control Transport Protocol.
+ *
+ * <P> The Stream Control Transport Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable,
+ * message-oriented, transport protocol existing at an equivalent level with UDP
+ * (User Datagram Protocol) and TCP (Transmission Control Protocol). SCTP is
+ * session oriented and an association between the endpoints must be established
+ * before any data can be transmitted.
+ *
+ * <P> SCTP has direct support for multi-homing, meaning than an endpoint may be
+ * represented by more than one address and each address may be used for sending
+ * and receiving data, thus providing network redundancy. The connection between
+ * two endpoints is referred to as an association between those endpoints.
+ * Endpoints can exchange a list of addresses during association setup. One
+ * address is designated as the primary address, this is the default address that
+ * the peer will use for sending data. A single port number is used across the
+ * entire address list at an endpoint for a specific session.
+ *
+ * <P> SCTP is message based. I/O operations operate upon messages and message
+ * boundaries are preserved. Each association may support multiple independant
+ * logical streams. Each stream represents a sequence of messages within a single
+ * association and streams are independant of one another, meaning that stream
+ * identifiers and sequence numbers are included in the data packet to allow
+ * sequencing of messages on a per-stream basis.
+ *
+ * <P> This package provides two programming model styles. The one-to-one style
+ * supported by {@link com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel} and {@link
+ * com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpServerChannel}, and the one-to-many
+ * style supported by {@link com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpMultiChannel}.
+ * The semantics of the one-to-one style interface are very similar to TCP.
+ * An {@code SctpChannel} can only control one SCTP association. The
+ * semantics of the one-to-many style interface are very similar to UDP. An
+ * {@code SctpMutliChannel} can control multiple SCTP associations.
+ *
+ * <P> Applications can send and receive per-message ancillary information through
+ * {@link com.sun.nio.sctp.MessageInfo}. For example, the stream number that
+ * the message it is to be sent or received from. The SCTP stack is event driven
+ * and applications can receive notifications of certain SCTP events by invoking
+ * the {@code receive} method of the SCTP channel with an appropriate {@link
+ * com.sun.nio.sctp.NotificationHandler notification handler}.
+ *
+ * <P> The SCTP protocol is defined by
+ * <A HREF="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4960">RFC4960</A>, and the optional
+ * extension for <I>Dynamic Address Reconfiguration</I> is defined by
+ * <A HREF="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5061">RFC5061</A>.
+ *
+ * @since 1.7
+ */
+
+package com.sun.nio.sctp;