Package org.jgroups

Provides top-level public JGroups classes such as Channel, Message, etc.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Address	Address identifies cluster member.
ChannelListener	Allows a listener to be notified when an important channel lifecycle event occurs.
MembershipListener	Allows a listener to be notified when group membership changes.
MessageListener	MessageListener allows a listener to be notified when a Message or a state transfer events arrives to a node.
PhysicalAddress	Represents a physical (as opposed to logical) address
Receiver	Defines the callbacks that are invoked when messages, views etc are received on a channel
UpHandler	Provides a hook to hijack over all events received by a certain channel which has installed this UpHandler.

Class Summary

Class	Description
Channel	A channel represents a group communication endpoint (like BSD datagram sockets).
Event	Event is a JGroups internal class used for inter-stack and intra-stack communication.
Global	Global is a JGroups internal class defining global variables.
Header	Header is a JGroups internal base class for all JGroups headers.
JChannel	JChannel is a default implementation of a Channel abstraction.
Membership	Represents a membership of a cluster group.
MergeView	A view that is sent as a result of a cluster merge.
Message	A Message encapsulates data sent to members of a group.
ReceiverAdapter	An adapter implementing the Receiver interface with no-op implementations.
Version	We're using the scheme described at http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=77231 for major, minor and micro version numbers.
View	A view is a local representation of the current membership of a group.
ViewId	ViewIds are used for ordering views (each view has a ViewId and a list of members).

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
Message.Flag
Message.TransientFlag

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
StateTransferException	StateTransferException is thrown to indicate a failure of a state transfer between cluster members.
SuspectedException	Thrown if a message is sent to a suspected member.
TimeoutException	Thrown if members fail to respond in time.

Package org.jgroups Description

Provides top-level public JGroups classes such as Channel, Message, etc.