jgroup.relacs.gm
Interface DispatcherService

All Superinterfaces:

Layer

All Known Implementing Classes:

NewDispatcherLayer

public interface DispatcherService
extends Layer

Service interface for the dispatcher layer. It provides methods to add the start and stop the dispatcher, and to force the dispatching of a single event.

Since:

0.8

Author:

Alberto Montresor, Hein Meling

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface jgroup.core.Layer

Layer.FinalizeLayer

Method Summary

void	dispatch(java.lang.Object obj) Dispatch a single event (can be called by an upcall method)
RemoteDispatcher	getRemoteDispatcher() Returns the remote dispatcher reference.
void	halt() Stop dispatching events
void	start(int gid) Start dispatching events for the given group.

Methods inherited from interface jgroup.core.Layer

addListener

Method Detail

start

void start(int gid)

Start dispatching events for the given group.

halt

void halt()

Stop dispatching events

dispatch

void dispatch(java.lang.Object obj)

Dispatch a single event (can be called by an upcall method)

getRemoteDispatcher

RemoteDispatcher getRemoteDispatcher()
                                     throws JgroupException

Returns the remote dispatcher reference.

Throws:

JgroupException - Raised if the dispatcher service could be not export for remote access by the Jgroup daemon.