hostauthorizer.java

sea是一个基于seda模式的实现。这个设计模式将系统分为很多stage。每个stage分布不同的任务（基于线程池）。通过任务流的方式提高系统的效率。

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2003, The Regents of the University of California, through
 * Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required
 * approvals from the U.S. Dept. of Energy). All rights reserved.
 */
package gov.lbl.dsd.sea.nio.auth;

import java.net.InetAddress;

/**
 * Interface for mechanism to query whether or not a given host is
 * allowed to perform a certain action.
 * 
 * @see SmartHostAuthorizer
 * 
 * @author [e-mail]
 * @author $Author: hoschek3 $
 * @version $Revision: 1.1 $, $Date: 2004/06/17 05:39:00 $
 */
public interface HostAuthorizer {

	/** 
	 * Returns whether or not the given host (aka InetAddress) is allowed to
	 * perform a certain action, depending on the current allow/deny rules.
	 * 
	 * @param address the host attempting to be authorized
	 */
	public boolean isAllowed(InetAddress address);
	
}