From: "Christoffer Lernö" <lerno@...>
Date: 2007-10-12T22:34:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Reliable multicasting

On 12 Oct 2007, at 07:25, ara.t.howard wrote:

> On Oct 11, 2007, at 11:02 PM, Christoffer Lernö wrote:
>
>> Ah, I should have mentioned I did check out spread, but its not a  
>> canidate due to its need for a separate daemon process.
>
> maybe it can be done - but it seems any reliable multicasting  
> platform is going to have this requirement - after all someone  
> needs to be listening on a port(s) to get messages right?
> what's the alternative to not having a daemon?

Well, apparently in JGroups there is no daemon, everything seems to  
be handled in each "client" to ensure FIFO, lossless transmission etc.


/C