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com.sun.nio.sctp
Class Association

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.nio.sctp.Association

public class Association
extends Object

An abstract class that represents an SCTP association.

An association exists between two SCTP endpoints. Each endpoint is represented by a list of transport addresses through which that endpoint can be reached and from which it will originate SCTP messages. The association spans over all of the possible source/destination combinations which may be generated from each endpoint's lists of addresses.

Association ID's are guaranteed to be unique for an SCTP socket channel for the lifetime of the association. An association ID may be reused after the association has been shutdown. An association ID is not unique across multiple SCTP Socket channels. Associations local and remote addresses may change if the SCTP implementation supports Dynamic Address Reconfiguration as defined by RFC5061, see the SCTP socket channel's bindAddress and unbindAddress methods.

An Association is returned from an SctpChannel or an SctpMultiChannel, as well as being given as a parameter to NotificationHandler methods.

Since:

1.7

Constructor Summary

protected

Association(int associationID, int maxInStreams, int maxOutStreams)

Method Summary

int	associationID() Returns the associationID.
int	maxInboundStreams() Returns the maximum number of inbound streams that this association supports.
int	maxOutboundStreams() Returns the maximum number of outbound streams that this association supports.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Association

protected Association(int associationID,
                      int maxInStreams,
                      int maxOutStreams)

Method Detail

associationID

public final int associationID()

Returns the associationID.

Returns:

The association ID

maxInboundStreams

public final int maxInboundStreams()

Returns the maximum number of inbound streams that this association supports.

Data received on this association will be on stream number s, where 0 <= s < maxInboundStreams().

Returns:

The maximum number of inbound streams

maxOutboundStreams

public final int maxOutboundStreams()

Returns the maximum number of outbound streams that this association supports.

Data sent on this association must be on stream number s, where 0 <= s < maxOutboundStreams().

Returns:

The maximum number of outbound streams