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/**
* <p>RMI object used to establish connections to an RMI connector.
* There is one Remote object implementing this interface for each RMI
* connector.</p>
*
* <p>User code does not usually refer to this interface. It is
* specified as part of the public API so that different
* implementations of that API will interoperate.</p>
*
* @since 1.5
*/
/**
* <p>The version of the RMI Connector Protocol understood by this
* connector server. This is a string with the following format:</p>
*
* <pre>
* <em>protocol-version</em> <em>implementation-name</em>
* </pre>
*
* <p>The <code><em>protocol-version</em></code> is a series of
* two or more non-negative integers separated by periods
* (<code>.</code>). An implementation of the version described
* by this documentation must use the string <code>1.0</code>
* here.</p>
*
* <p>After the protocol version there must be a space, followed
* by the implementation name. The format of the implementation
* name is unspecified. It is recommended that it include an
* implementation version number. An implementation can use an
* empty string as its implementation name, for example for
* security reasons.</p>
*
* @return a string with the format described here.
*
* @exception RemoteException if there is a communication
* exception during the remote method call.
*/
/**
* <p>Makes a new connection through this RMI connector. Each
* remote client calls this method to obtain a new RMI object
* representing its connection.</p>
*
* @param credentials this object specifies the user-defined credentials
* to be passed in to the server in order to authenticate the user before
* creating the <code>RMIConnection</code>. Can be null.
*
* @return the newly-created connection object.
*
* @exception IOException if the new client object cannot be
* created or exported, or if there is a communication exception
* during the remote method call.
*
* @exception SecurityException if the given credentials do not
* allow the server to authenticate the caller successfully.
*/
}