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21 package org.apache.cactus.spi.client.connector;
22
23 /**
24 * Hold protocol-related information that need to be exchanged during the
25 * lifecycle of the
26 * {@link org.apache.cactus.spi.client.connector.ProtocolHandler}.
27 * For example the HTTP protocol handler needs to pass the HTTP connection
28 * around to the different lifecycle methods. However, as this kind of state
29 * information is highly protocol dependent, we needed to abstract out the
30 * state information, hence this tagging interface. The implementation is free
31 * to have any kind of methods. These methods will only be used in the
32 * {@link org.apache.cactus.spi.client.connector.ProtocolHandler} implementation
33 * classes.
34 *
35 * @version $Id: ProtocolState.java 238991 2004-05-22 11:34:50Z vmassol $
36 * @since 1.6
37 */
38 public interface ProtocolState
39 {
40 }