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package com.sun.midp.io;

/**
 * Base class for Network Connection protocols.
 * This class allows one to initialize the network, if necessary,
 * before any networking code is called.
 */
public abstract class NetworkConnectionBase extends
         BufferedConnectionAdapter { 

    /**
     * This is so not StreamConnection classes can intialize the
     * network if they are loaded first.
     */
    public static void initializeNativeNetwork() {
        /*
         * This method just has to be a reference to
         * get this class loaded and cause the
         * class initializer to initialize the network.
         */
    }

    /**
     * Initialize any possible native networking code.
     */
    private static native void initializeInternal();

    /**
     * This will make sure the network is initialized once and only once
     * per VM instance.
     */
    static { 
        initializeInternal();
    }

    /**
     * Initializes the connection.
     *
     * @param sizeOfBuffer size of the internal buffer or 0 for the default
     *                     size
     */
    protected NetworkConnectionBase(int sizeOfBuffer) {
        super(sizeOfBuffer);
    }
}