javax.websocket
Class ContainerProvider

java.lang.Object
  javax.websocket.ContainerProvider

public abstract class ContainerProvider
extends Object

Provider class that allows the developer to get a reference to the implementation of the WebSocketContainer. The provider class uses the ServiceLoader to load an implementation of ContainerProvider. Specifically, the fully qualified classname of the container implementation of ContainerProvider must be listed in the META-INF/services/javax.websocket.ContainerProvider file in the implementation JAR file.

Author:

dannycoward

Constructor Summary

ContainerProvider()

Method Summary

protected abstract WebSocketContainer	getContainer() Load the container implementation.
static WebSocketContainer	getWebSocketContainer() Obtain a new instance of a WebSocketContainer.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ContainerProvider

public ContainerProvider()

Method Detail

getWebSocketContainer

public static WebSocketContainer getWebSocketContainer()

Obtain a new instance of a WebSocketContainer. The method looks for the ContainerProvider implementation class in the order listed in the META-INF/services/javax.websocket.ContainerProvider file, returning the WebSocketContainer implementation from the ContainerProvider implementation that is not null.

Returns:

an implementation provided instance of type WebSocketContainer

getContainer

protected abstract WebSocketContainer getContainer()

Load the container implementation.

Returns:

the implementation class