net.sf.ehcache.distribution
Class MulticastKeepaliveHeartbeatSender

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.ehcache.distribution.MulticastKeepaliveHeartbeatSender

public final class MulticastKeepaliveHeartbeatSender
extends java.lang.Object

Sends heartbeats to a multicast group containing a compressed list of URLs.

You can control how far the multicast packets propagate by setting the badly misnamed "TTL". Using the multicast IP protocol, the TTL value indicates the scope or range in which a packet may be forwarded. By convention:

• 0 is restricted to the same host
• 1 is restricted to the same subnet
• 32 is restricted to the same site
• 64 is restricted to the same region
• 128 is restricted to the same continent
• 255 is unrestricted

You can also control how often the heartbeat sends by setting the interval.

Version:

$Id: MulticastKeepaliveHeartbeatSender.java 537 2007-08-14 23:52:19Z gregluck $

Author:

Greg Luck

Constructor Summary

MulticastKeepaliveHeartbeatSender(CacheManager cacheManager, java.net.InetAddress multicastAddress, java.lang.Integer multicastPort, java.lang.Integer timeToLive)
Constructor.

Method Summary

void	dispose() Shutdown this heartbeat sender
static long	getHeartBeatInterval() Returns the heartbeat interval.
java.lang.Integer	getTimeToLive()
void	init() Start the heartbeat thread
static void	setHeartBeatInterval(long heartBeatInterval) Sets the heartbeat interval to something other than the default of 5000ms.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MulticastKeepaliveHeartbeatSender

public MulticastKeepaliveHeartbeatSender(CacheManager cacheManager,
                                         java.net.InetAddress multicastAddress,
                                         java.lang.Integer multicastPort,
                                         java.lang.Integer timeToLive)

Constructor.

Parameters:

cacheManager - the bound CacheManager. Each CacheManager has a maximum of one sender

multicastAddress -

multicastPort -

timeToLive - See class description for the meaning of this parameter.

Method Detail

init

public final void init()

Start the heartbeat thread

dispose

public final void dispose()

Shutdown this heartbeat sender

setHeartBeatInterval

public static void setHeartBeatInterval(long heartBeatInterval)

Sets the heartbeat interval to something other than the default of 5000ms. This is useful for testing, but not recommended for production. This method is static and so affects the heartbeat interval of all senders. The change takes effect after the next scheduled heartbeat.

Parameters:

heartBeatInterval - a time in ms, greater than 1000

getHeartBeatInterval

public static long getHeartBeatInterval()

Returns the heartbeat interval.

getTimeToLive

public java.lang.Integer getTimeToLive()

Returns:

the TTL