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## java.rmi.server
Interface RMIClientSocketFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:
  RMISocketFactory, SslRMIClientSocketFactory

    public interface RMIClientSocketFactory

An `RMIClientSocketFactory` instance is used by the RMI runtime in order to obtain client sockets for RMI calls. A remote object can be associated with an `RMIClientSocketFactory` when it is created/exported via the constructors or `exportObject` methods of `java.rmi.server.UnicastRemoteObject` and `java.rmi.activation.Activatable` .

An `RMIClientSocketFactory` instance associated with a remote object will be downloaded to clients when the remote object's reference is transmitted in an RMI call. This `RMIClientSocketFactory` will be used to create connections to the remote object for remote method calls.

An `RMIClientSocketFactory` instance can also be associated with a remote object registry so that clients can use custom socket communication with a remote object registry.

An implementation of this interface should be serializable and should implement `Object.equals(java.lang.Object)` to return `true` when passed an instance that represents the same (functionally equivalent) client socket factory, and `false` otherwise (and it should also implement `Object.hashCode()` consistently with its `Object.equals` implementation).

Since:
  1.2
See Also:
  `UnicastRemoteObject`, `Activatable`, `LocateRegistry`

Method Summary
`Socket` | `createSocket(String host, int port)` Create a client socket connected to the specified host and port.

Method Detail

### createSocket

    Socket createSocket(String host,
                        int port)
                        throws IOException

  Create a client socket connected to the specified host and port.

  Parameters:
    `host` - the host name
    `port` - the port number
  Returns:
    a socket connected to the specified host and port.
  Throws:
    `IOException` - if an I/O error occurs during socket creation
  Since:
    1.2

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