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+/*******************************************************************************\r
+ * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 Association for Decentralized Information Management\r
+ * in Industry THTH ry.\r
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials\r
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0\r
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at\r
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html\r
+ *\r
+ * Contributors:\r
+ * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland - initial API and implementation\r
+ *******************************************************************************/\r
+package org.simantics.db;\r
+\r
+import org.simantics.db.exception.DatabaseException;\r
+\r
+public interface ServerI {\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Start the server.\r
+ *\r
+ * @throws DatabaseException\r
+ */\r
+ void start() throws DatabaseException;\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Ask server to stop. Server has no obligation to stop.\r
+ * After this server is either running or not.\r
+ * You can not and should not make any assumptions on server behavior.\r
+ * Remember that server lifetime is not under our control.\r
+ *\r
+ * @throws DatabaseException if server did not receive our plead or had trouble responding.\r
+ */\r
+ void stop() throws DatabaseException;\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Verify if the server is in active and usable state.\r
+ *\r
+ * @return true if the server is alive and responsive.\r
+ */\r
+ boolean isActive() throws DatabaseException;\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Get the server address. Can be used with {@link Driver#getSession()} and {@link Driver#getServer()} methods.\r
+ *\r
+ * @return address of the server as canonical string.\r
+ */\r
+ public String getAddress() throws DatabaseException;\r
+\r
+// /**\r
+// * @return\r
+// * @throws DatabaseException\r
+// * @deprecated Was used for getting server address.\r
+// * Changed to string to remove dependency to ServerAddress structure.\r
+// * Use Use the {@link #getAddress()} method instead.\r
+// */\r
+// public ServerAddress getServerAddress() throws DatabaseException;\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Execute server command.\r
+ *\r
+ * @return command output.\r
+ */\r
+\r
+ public String execute(String command) throws DatabaseException;\r
+\r
+ /**\r
+ * Execute server command and disconnect after command has been executed.\r
+ *\r
+ * @return command output.\r
+ */\r
+ public String executeAndDisconnect(String command) throws DatabaseException;\r
+}\r