infoservice
Class InfoServicePropagandist

java.lang.Object
  infoservice.InfoServicePropagandist

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class InfoServicePropagandist
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.lang.Runnable

This is the implementation of the announcment of our own infoservice. It generates periodicly (default: 10 minutes) a new InfoServiceDBEntry for our own infoservices and propagates it to all other infoservices (via InfoServiceDatabase.update()).

Field Summary

private static boolean	alreadyRunning Stores whether ther is already an instance of InfoServicePropagandist running or not.
private static long	ms_serialNumber

Constructor Summary

InfoServicePropagandist()

Method Summary

static void	generateInfoServicePropagandist() Generates an instance of InfoServicePropagandist if there isn't already one running.
void	run() This is the propaganda thread, which propagates our infoservice to all neighbour infoservices every Constants.ANNOUNCE_PERIOD (default: 10 minutes).

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

ms_serialNumber

private static long ms_serialNumber

alreadyRunning

private static boolean alreadyRunning

Stores whether ther is already an instance of InfoServicePropagandist running or not.

Constructor Detail

InfoServicePropagandist

public InfoServicePropagandist()

Method Detail

generateInfoServicePropagandist

public static void generateInfoServicePropagandist()

Generates an instance of InfoServicePropagandist if there isn't already one running.

run

public void run()

This is the propaganda thread, which propagates our infoservice to all neighbour infoservices every Constants.ANNOUNCE_PERIOD (default: 10 minutes).

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable