MulticastMessageSender (shoal-gms-impl 3.0.1 API)

All Superinterfaces:

ShoalMessageSender

All Known Subinterfaces:

NetworkManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractMulticastMessageSender, AbstractMultiMessageSender, AbstractNetworkManager, BlockingIOMulticastSender, GrizzlyNetworkManager, GrizzlyNetworkManager2, 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
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  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 java.io.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:
    
    java.io.IOException - if I/O error occurs or given parameters are not valid