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    20  package org.apache.mina.common;
    21
    22  import java.net.SocketAddress;
    23
    24  /**
    25   * An {@link IoSession} for broadcast transports. (e.g. UDP broadcast or multicast)
    26   *
    27   * <h2>Writing Back to the Broadcasting Server</h2>
    28   * <p>
    29   * When you implement a client that receives a broadcast message from a server
    30   * such as DHCP server, the client might need to send a response message for the
    31   * broadcast message the server sent.  Because the remote address of the session
    32   * is not the address of the server in case of broadcasting, there should be a
    33   * way to specify the destination when you write the response message.
    34   * This interface provides {@link #write(Object, SocketAddress)} method so you
    35   * can specify the destination.
    36   * </p>
    37   *
    38   * @author The Apache Directory Project (mina-dev@directory.apache.org)
    39   * @version $Rev: 555855 $, $Date: 2007-07-13 05:19:00 +0200 (Fri, 13 Jul 2007) $
    40   */
    41  public interface BroadcastIoSession extends IoSession {
    42      /**
    43       * Writes the specified <tt>message</tt> to the specified <tt>destination</tt>.
    44       * This operation is asynchronous; {@link IoHandler#messageSent(IoSession, Object)}
    45       * will be invoked when the message is actually sent to remote peer. You can
    46       * also wait for the returned {@link WriteFuture} if you want to wait for
    47       * the message actually written.
    48       *
    49       * @param destination <tt>null</tt> if you want the message sent to the
    50       *                    default remote address
    51       */
    52      WriteFuture write(Object message, SocketAddress destination);
    53  }