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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2002, 2007, Oracle and/or its affiliates. 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
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+ *
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+ *
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+ */
+
+package javax.management.remote.rmi;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.rmi.Remote;
+import java.rmi.RemoteException;
+
+/**
+ * <p>RMI object used to establish connections to an RMI connector.
+ * There is one Remote object implementing this interface for each RMI
+ * connector.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>User code does not usually refer to this interface.  It is
+ * specified as part of the public API so that different
+ * implementations of that API will interoperate.</p>
+ *
+ * @since 1.5
+ */
+public interface RMIServer extends Remote {
+    /**
+     * <p>The version of the RMI Connector Protocol understood by this
+     * connector server.  This is a string with the following format:</p>
+     *
+     * <pre>
+     * <em>protocol-version</em> <em>implementation-name</em>
+     * </pre>
+     *
+     * <p>The <code><em>protocol-version</em></code> is a series of
+     * two or more non-negative integers separated by periods
+     * (<code>.</code>).  An implementation of the version described
+     * by this documentation must use the string <code>1.0</code>
+     * here.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>After the protocol version there must be a space, followed
+     * by the implementation name.  The format of the implementation
+     * name is unspecified.  It is recommended that it include an
+     * implementation version number.  An implementation can use an
+     * empty string as its implementation name, for example for
+     * security reasons.</p>
+     *
+     * @return a string with the format described here.
+     *
+     * @exception RemoteException if there is a communication
+     * exception during the remote method call.
+     */
+    public String getVersion() throws RemoteException;
+
+    /**
+     * <p>Makes a new connection through this RMI connector.  Each
+     * remote client calls this method to obtain a new RMI object
+     * representing its connection.</p>
+     *
+     * @param credentials this object specifies the user-defined credentials
+     * to be passed in to the server in order to authenticate the user before
+     * creating the <code>RMIConnection</code>.  Can be null.
+     *
+     * @return the newly-created connection object.
+     *
+     * @exception IOException if the new client object cannot be
+     * created or exported, or if there is a communication exception
+     * during the remote method call.
+     *
+     * @exception SecurityException if the given credentials do not
+     * allow the server to authenticate the caller successfully.
+     */
+    public RMIConnection newClient(Object credentials) throws IOException;
+}