Request for opinion

[seammm]

Hi - I need to listen for multicast udp datagrams and put the received datagrams into a queue to be processed. If possible, I'd like to do this within jboss server, by dropping a war/ear/xxx into deployment directory. Therefore, I can use one kind of server, jboss as, and hopefully nothing else. Any pointer, opinion about how to implement a multicast receiver with jboss remoting (seems to be the place) or any other jboss technology is appreciated. Thanks.

[mazz]

Sounds like you probably want to use JGroups. You can drop a -service.xml file in JBossAS deploy/ directory and have it deploy JGroups "stuff" in the server - but the core technology you want to read up on is here:

http://labs.jboss.com/jgroups/

[seammm]

Hi - Just to make sure, the source of the UDP packets is a non-jgroups server. It is actually a pbx (phone). Can jgroups powered jboss server receive/handle non-jgroups generated packets? And if so, is there any sample or thread in this group you can share with me? Thanks.

[ron_sigal]

Don't know. Again, see http://labs.jboss.com/jgroups/ for a pointer to the jgroups mailing list.