Contents

• Contents
• Overview
  • Building Blocks
  • The JChannel Protocol Stack
• Installation and Configuration
  • Installing and compiling the source distribution
  • Choosing the channel implementation
    • JChannel
    • Ensemble
    • iBus
  • Testing your Setup
  • Running a Demo Program
    • Testing for Normal Use
    • Testing for Use over Ensemble
    • Testing for Use over iBus
• Using JavaGroups
  • Utility classes
    • Version
    • Addresses
    • Messages and Headers
    • Queue
    • View
    • SlidingWindow
    • ReusableThread
    • ThreadPool
    • Scheduler
    • Util
  • Interfaces
    • Transport
    • MessageListener
    • MembershipListener
  • Channels
    • Creating a channel
    • Connecting to a channel
    • Getting the local and group addresses
    • Sending data to member(s)
    • Receiving data
    • Peeking at data
    • Getting the group's state
    • Getting the current view
    • Disconnecting from a channel
    • Closing a channel
    • Setting options
  • Building blocks
    • PullPushAdapter
    • MethodCall
    • RequestCorrelator
    • GroupRequest
    • MessageDispatcher
    • RpcDispatcher
    • DistributedHashtable
  • Customizing the JChannel protocol stack
    • Properties
    • Dependency checking
    • Available Protocols
  • Using multiple channels
  • Disabling IP multicast
    • Disabling IP multicast
    • Troubleshooting
  • Firewalls
    • Using TUNNEL and Router to tunnel firewalls
    • Using multiple Routers
• Implementing Protocols Using JChannel
  • The JChannel protocol stack
    • Utility classes
    • Events and messages
    • Architecture
    • Class Protocol
    • Construction of the protocol stack
    • Initialization and de-initialization of the protocol stack
  • Creating a sample protocol
  • Peer protocols
    • MessageProtocol
    • RpcProtocol
• Advanced Concepts
  • Avoiding deadlocks using synchronous group method invocations
  • Using deadlock detection with the RequestCorrelator
• Implementing view changes
  • Protocol layers that work together to implement view changes
    • RpcGMS
    • FLUSH
    • NAKACK
    • STABLE
  • Interaction between protocol layers implementing view changes
• Appendix
  • Events
    • BECOME_SERVER
    • CONNECT
    • CONNECT_OK
    • DISCONNECT
    • DISCONNECT_OK
    • FIND_INITIAL_MBRS
    • FIND_INITIAL_MBRS_OK
    • GET_APPL_STATE
    • GET_APPL_STATE_OK
    • GET_STATE
    • GET_STATE_OK
    • MSG
    • SET_LOCAL_ADDRESS
    • SUSPECT
    • START
    • START_OK
    • START_QUEUEING
    • STATE_RECEIVED
    • STOP
    • STOP_OK
    • STOP_QUEUEING
    • SWITCH_ACK
    • SWITCH_NAK
    • TMP_VIEW
    • VIEW_CHANGE
  • JChannel Protocols
    • Templates
    • Delay
    • FD
    • FRAG
    • GMS
    • MACK
    • MNAK
    • PING
    • PT2PT
    • QUEUE
    • STATE_TRANSFER
    • TOTAL
    • TUNNEL
    • UDP
• Bibliography