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Interface OutputStreamCompressEngine

public interface OutputStreamCompressEngine

Generic compression engine for compressing data that is written to an output stream. Used by class CompressedDataOutputStream for content compression.

An application that implements its own OutputStreamCompressEngine has to override the following SecurityProvider method to plug-in its own implementation:

• getOutputStreamCompressEngine(AlgorithmID compressAlg, OutputStream os, int bufferSize)

See Also:

SecurityProvider

Method Summary

java.io.OutputStream

getOutputStream() Gets an output stream that compresses all data that is written to it (respectively to the underlying output stream).

Method Detail

getOutputStream

java.io.OutputStream getOutputStream()

Gets an output stream that compresses all data that is written to it (respectively to the underlying output stream).

Returns:

the compressesing output stream