TCPEndpoint

Create an endpoint for a specified host and port. This should not be used by external classes to create endpoints for servers in this VM; use getLocalEndpoint instead.

Create a custom socket factory endpoint for a specified host and port. This should not be used by external classes to create endpoints for servers in this VM; use getLocalEndpoint instead.

Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.

The equals method implements an equivalence relation on non-null object references:

• It is reflexive: for any non-null reference value x, x.equals(x) should return true.
• It is symmetric: for any non-null reference values x and y, x.equals(y) should return true if and only if y.equals(x) returns true.
• It is transitive: for any non-null reference values x, y, and z, if x.equals(y) returns true and y.equals(z) returns true, then x.equals(z) should return true.
• It is consistent: for any non-null reference values x and y, multiple invocations of x.equals(y) consistently return true or consistently return false, provided no information used in equals comparisons on the objects is modified.
• For any non-null reference value x, x.equals(null) should return false.

The equals method for class Object implements the most discriminating possible equivalence relation on objects; that is, for any non-null reference values x and y, this method returns true if and only if x and y refer to the same object (x == y has the value true).

Note that it is generally necessary to override the hashCode method whenever this method is overridden, so as to maintain the general contract for the hashCode method, which states that equal objects must have equal hash codes.

Export the object to accept incoming calls.

Returns a channel for this (remote) endpoint.

Get the client socket factory associated with this endpoint.

Returns address for endpoint

Returns the transport for incoming connections to this endpoint, if this endpoint was created as a server endpoint (using getLocalEndpoint).

Returns the port that this endpoint's inbound transport listens on, if this endpoint was created as a server endpoint (using getLocalEndpoint). If this endpoint was created for the default/anonymous port, then this method returns zero even if the transport has started listening.

Get an endpoint for the local address space on specified port. If port number is 0, it returns shared default endpoint object whose host name and port may or may not have been determined.

Returns transport for making connections to remote endpoints; (here, the default transport at port 0 is used).

Returns the port for this endpoint. If this endpoint was created as a server endpoint (using getLocalEndpoint) for a default/anonymous port and its inbound transport has started listening, this method returns (instead of zero) the actual bound port suitable for passing to clients.

Get the server socket factory associated with this endpoint.

Returns a hash code value for the object. This method is supported for the benefit of hashtables such as those provided by java.util.Hashtable.

The general contract of hashCode is:

• Whenever it is invoked on the same object more than once during an execution of a Java application, the hashCode method must consistently return the same integer, provided no information used in equals comparisons on the object is modified. This integer need not remain consistent from one execution of an application to another execution of the same application.
• If two objects are equal according to the equals(Object) method, then calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce the same integer result.
• It is not required that if two objects are unequal according to the equals(java.lang.Object) method, then calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce distinct integer results. However, the programmer should be aware that producing distinct integer results for unequal objects may improve the performance of hashtables.

As much as is reasonably practical, the hashCode method defined by class Object does return distinct integers for distinct objects. (This is typically implemented by converting the internal address of the object into an integer, but this implementation technique is not required by the Java^TM programming language.)

Get the endpoint from the input stream.

Create a new endpoint from input stream data.

Release idle outbound connections to reduce demand on I/O resources. All transports are asked to release excess connections.

Return string representation for endpoint.

Write endpoint to output stream.

Write endpoint to output stream in older format used by UnicastRef for JDK1.1 compatibility.