com.sun.multicast.advertising
Class Advertiser

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.sun.multicast.advertising.Advertiser

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class Advertiser

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.lang.Runnable

Controls advertising of Advertisement objects.

See Also:

Advertisement

Method Summary

static Advertiser	getAdvertiser() Returns a reference to the Advertiser.
void	run() Overrides Thread's run method.
void	startAdvertising(Advertisement advertisement) Starts advertising an Advertisement on the default advertising address.
void	startAdvertising(java.net.InetAddress advertisingAddress, Advertisement advertisement) Starts advertising an Advertisement on the specified advertising address.
void	startAdvertising(java.net.InetAddress advertisingAddress, java.net.InetAddress address, int ttl, java.util.Date startTime, java.util.Date endTime) Starts advertising an address on the specified address.
void	startAdvertising(java.net.InetAddress address, int ttl, java.util.Date startTime, java.util.Date endTime) Starts advertising an address on the default advertising address.
boolean	stopAdvertising(Advertisement advertisement) Stops advertising an Advertisement.
boolean	stopAdvertising(java.net.InetAddress address) Stops advertising an address.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getAdvertiser

public static Advertiser getAdvertiser()
                                throws java.net.UnknownHostException

Returns a reference to the Advertiser.

Returns:

reference to the Advertiser object

startAdvertising

public void startAdvertising(java.net.InetAddress advertisingAddress,
                             java.net.InetAddress address,
                             int ttl,
                             java.util.Date startTime,
                             java.util.Date endTime)
                      throws java.io.IOException

Starts advertising an address on the specified address.

Parameters:

advertisingAddress - the address on which to send the advertisement

address - the address to be advertised

ttl - the time-to-live to use in the advertisement

startTime - the time to start advertising

endTime - the time to stop advertising

startAdvertising

public void startAdvertising(java.net.InetAddress advertisingAddress,
                             Advertisement advertisement)
                      throws java.io.IOException

Starts advertising an Advertisement on the specified advertising address.

Parameters:

advertisingAddress - the address on which to send the Advertisement

advertisement - the Advertisement to be advertised

startAdvertising

public void startAdvertising(java.net.InetAddress address,
                             int ttl,
                             java.util.Date startTime,
                             java.util.Date endTime)
                      throws java.io.IOException

Starts advertising an address on the default advertising address.

Parameters:

address - the address to be advertised

ttl - the time-to-live to use in the advertisement

startTime - the time to start advertising

endTime - the time to stop advertising

startAdvertising

public void startAdvertising(Advertisement advertisement)
                      throws java.io.IOException

Starts advertising an Advertisement on the default advertising address.

Parameters:

advertisement - the Advertisement to be advertised

stopAdvertising

public boolean stopAdvertising(java.net.InetAddress address)

Stops advertising an address.

Parameters:

address - the address to stop advertising

Returns:

true if the Advertisement was found; false otherwise

stopAdvertising

public boolean stopAdvertising(Advertisement advertisement)

Stops advertising an Advertisement. advertisement the Advertisement to stop advertising

Returns:

true if the Advertisement was found; false otherwise

run

public void run()

Overrides Thread's run method.

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable