Rio Project 4.2 API Documentation

org.rioproject.boot
Class MulticastStatus

java.lang.Object
  org.rioproject.boot.MulticastStatus

public class MulticastStatus
extends Object

Class which can be used to determine whether multicast is available. Credit goes to Alexander V. Konstantinou

Constructor Summary

MulticastStatus()

Method Summary

static void	checkMulticast(int timeout) Determines if a multicast socket can be created and a Request annnouncement can be sent.
static void	main(String[] args)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MulticastStatus

public MulticastStatus()

Method Detail

checkMulticast

public static void checkMulticast(int timeout)
                           throws IOException

Determines if a multicast socket can be created and a Request annnouncement can be sent. Note that it is still possible that multicast does not work outside the host.

Parameters:

timeout - The timeout to use hen checking the status

Throws:

IOException - If there are errors interfacing ith the network

main

public static void main(String[] args)