test/java/rmi/reliability/benchmark/bench/rmi/BenchServer.java

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/*
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package bench.rmi;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.rmi.Remote;
import java.rmi.RemoteException;

/**
 * The RMI benchmark server is a simple compute-engine-like server which allows
 * client benchmarks to create/export and unexport objects off of the server,
 * or run arbitrary tasks.
 */
public interface BenchServer extends Remote {
    /**
     * Interface used for creating server-side remote objects.
     */
    public interface RemoteObjectFactory extends Serializable {
        Remote create() throws RemoteException;
    }

    /**
     * Interface used for server-side tasks.
     */
    public interface Task extends Serializable {
        Object execute() throws Exception;
    }

    /**
     * Uses the given remote object factory to create a new remote object on
     * the server side.
     */
    Remote create(RemoteObjectFactory factory) throws RemoteException;

    /**
     * Unexports the specified remote object.  Returns true if successful,
     * false otherwise.
     */
    boolean unexport(Remote obj, boolean force) throws RemoteException;

    /**
     * Execute given task.
     */
    Object execute(Task task) throws Exception;

    /**
     * Invoke the garbage collector.
     */
    void gc() throws RemoteException;

    /**
     * Terminate the server.
     */
    void terminate(int delay) throws RemoteException;
}