java.nio.channels
Interface Channel

All Known Subinterfaces:

ByteChannel, GatheringByteChannel, InterruptibleChannel, ReadableByteChannel, ScatteringByteChannel, WritableByteChannel

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractInterruptibleChannel, AbstractSelectableChannel, DatagramChannel, FileChannel, Pipe.SinkChannel, Pipe.SourceChannel, SelectableChannel, ServerSocketChannel, SocketChannel

public interface Channel

Method Summary

void	close() Closes this channel
boolean	isOpen() Tells whether this channel is open or not

Method Detail

isOpen

boolean isOpen()

Tells whether this channel is open or not

Returns:

trueif channel is open, false otherwise

close

void close()
           throws IOException

Closes this channel

Throws:

IOException - If an error occurs