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/**
 * This package contains the code for the Replication Server part
 * of the Multimaster replication feature.
 * <br>
 *
 * A replication server is responsible for :
 * <br>
 * <ul>
 * <li>listen for connections from ldap servers.</li>
 * <li>Connect/manage connection to other replication servers.</li>
 * <li>Receive changes from ldap servers.</li>
 * <li>Forward changes to ldap server and other replication servers.</li>
 * <li>Save changes to stable storage (includes trimming of older operations).
 * </li>
 * </ul>
 * <br>
 * The main classes of this packages are :
 * <br>
 * <ul>
 * <li><A HREF="SocketSession.html"><B>SocketSession</B></A>
 * implements the ProtocolSession interface that is
 * used by the replication server and the directory server to communicate.
 * This is done by using the innate encoding/decoding capabilities of the
 * ReplicationMessages objects. This class is used by both the
 * replicationServer and the replication package.
 * </li>
 * <li><A HREF="ReplicationServerDomain.html"><B>ReplicationServerDomain</B></A>
 * implements the multiplexing part of the replication
 * server. It contains method for forwarding all the received messages to
 * the ServerHandler and to the dbHandler objects.<br>
 * </li>
 * <li><A HREF="ServerHandler.html"><B>ServerHandler</B></A>
 * contains the code related to handler of remote
 * server. It can manage replication servers of directory servers (may be it
 * shoudl be splitted in two different classes, one for each of these).<br>
 * </li>
 * <li><A HREF="ServerWriter.html"><B>ServerWriter</B></A>
 * the thread responsible for writing to the remote
 * server.<br>
 * </li>
 * <li><A HREF="ServerReader.html"><B>ServerReader</B></A>
 * the thread responsible for reading from the remote
 * object.<br>
 * </li>
 * <li><A HREF="DbHandler.html"><B>DbHandler</B></A>
 * DbHandler contains the code responsible for saving the changes to
 * stable storage.<br>
 *  </li>
 *  </ul>
 */
@org.opends.server.types.PublicAPI(
     stability=org.opends.server.types.StabilityLevel.PRIVATE)
package org.opends.server.replication.server;