com.sun.enterprise.mgmt.transport
Interface MulticastMessageSender

All Superinterfaces:

ShoalMessageSender

All Known Subinterfaces:

NetworkManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractMulticastMessageSender, AbstractMultiMessageSender, AbstractNetworkManager, BlockingIOMulticastSender, GrizzlyNetworkManager, GrizzlyNetworkManager1_9, GrizzlyNetworkManager2, GrizzlyUDPConnectorWrapper, JxtaNetworkManager, JxtaPipeManagerWrapper, VirtualMulticastSender

public interface MulticastMessageSender
extends ShoalMessageSender

This interface is for broadcasting or multicasting a Message to all members

Author:

Bongjae Chang

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.sun.enterprise.mgmt.transport.ShoalMessageSender

TCP_TRANSPORT, UDP_TRANSPORT

Method Summary

boolean

broadcast(Message message) Broadcasts or Multicasts the given Message to all members

Methods inherited from interface com.sun.enterprise.mgmt.transport.ShoalMessageSender

start, stop

Method Detail

broadcast

boolean broadcast(Message message)
                  throws IOException

Broadcasts or Multicasts the given Message to all members

Parameters:

message - a message which is sent to all members

Returns:

true if the message is sent to all members successfully, otherwise false

Throws:

IOException - if I/O error occurs or given parameters are not valid