/// <summary> Opens the channel.<BR>
/// this does the following actions<BR>
/// 1. Resets the receiver queue by calling Queue.reset<BR>
/// 2. Sets up the protocol stack by calling ProtocolStack.setup<BR>
/// 3. Sets the closed flag to false.<BR>
/// </summary>
public override void open()
{
lock (this)
{
if (!closed)
throw new ChannelException("GroupChannel.open(): channel is already open.");
try
{
mq.reset();
// new stack is created on open() - bela June 12 2003
prot_stack = new ProtocolStack(this, props);
prot_stack.setup();
closed = false;
}
catch (System.Exception e)
{
throw new ChannelException("GroupChannel().open(): " + e.Message);
}
}
}
/// <summary> Constructs a <code>GroupChannel</code> instance with the protocol stack
/// configuration based upon the specified properties parameter.
///
/// </summary>
/// <param name="properties">an old style property string, a string representing a
/// system resource containing a JGroups XML configuration,
/// a string representing a URL pointing to a JGroups XML
/// XML configuration, or a string representing a file name
/// that contains a JGroups XML configuration.
///
/// </param>
/// <throws> ChannelException if problems occur during the configuration and </throws>
/// <summary> initialization of the protocol stack.
/// </summary>
public GroupChannel(string properties, ILogger NCacheLog)
{
props = properties;
this._ncacheLog = NCacheLog;
/*create the new protocol stack*/
prot_stack = new ProtocolStack(this, props);
prot_stack.NCacheLog = NCacheLog;
/* Setup protocol stack (create layers, queues between them */
try
{
prot_stack.setup();
}
catch (System.Exception e)
{
NCacheLog.Error("GroupChannel.GroupChannel()", e.ToString());
throw new ChannelException("GroupChannel(): " + e);
}
}