Provides a required information to implement high-level protocols. It consists of:
- {@link ProtocolCodecFactory} - provides {@link ProtocolEncoder} and{@link ProtocolDecoder} which translates binary or protocol specificdata into message object and vice versa.
- {@link ProtocolHandler} - handles high-leve protocol events.
If once you implement {@link ProtocolProvider} for your protocol, you canconnect to or bind on {@link SocketAddress} using {@link ProtocolAcceptor}and {@link ProtocolConnector}.
Please refer to ReverserProtocolProvider
example.
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@version $Rev: 357871 $, $Date: 2005-12-20 10:56:40 +0900 (Tue, 20 Dec 2005) $