2 * Copyright (c) 2013 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
4 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
5 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
6 * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
8 package org.opendaylight.protocol.framework;
10 import java.io.Closeable;
13 * Protocol Session represents the finite state machine in underlying protocol, including timers and its purpose is to
14 * create a connection between server and client. Session is automatically started, when TCP connection is created, but
15 * can be stopped manually. If the session is up, it has to redirect messages to/from user. Handles also malformed
16 * messages and unknown requests.
18 * This interface should be implemented by a final class representing a protocol specific session.
20 public interface ProtocolSession<T> extends Closeable {