- Added support for non-blocking AMI/batch requests, connection

  creation.
- Added support for AMI oneway requests.
- Changed collocation optimization to not perform any DNS lookups.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/java/src/IceInternal/EventHandler.java b/java/src/IceInternal/EventHandler.java
index 3a0ed6231a2..11241725083 100644
--- a/java/src/IceInternal/EventHandler.java
+++ b/java/src/IceInternal/EventHandler.java
@@ -25,12 +25,17 @@ public abstract class EventHandler
     // Read data via the event handler. May only be called if
     // readable() returns true.
     //
-    // NOTE: In Java, read returns true if the handler has more data
-    // data available, and therefore read should be called again.
-    //
     abstract public boolean read(BasicStream is);
 
     //
+    // In Java, it's possible that the transceiver reads more data
+    // than what was really asked. If this is the case, hasMoreData()
+    // returns true and the handler read() method should be called 
+    // again (without doing a select()).
+    //
+    abstract public boolean hasMoreData();
+
+    //
     // A complete message has been received.
     //
     abstract public void message(BasicStream stream, ThreadPool threadPool);
@@ -68,7 +73,8 @@ public abstract class EventHandler
     protected Instance _instance;
 
     //
-    // The _stream data member is for use by ThreadPool only.
+    // The _stream data member is only for use by the ThreadPool or by the
+    // connection for validation.
     //
-    BasicStream _stream;
+    protected BasicStream _stream;
 }