JXTA in a Nutshell

Name

mkadv — Makes an advertisement

Synopsis

mkadv -g|p [[-t pipetype] [-d doc] [name]]

Description

mkadv creates a peergroup or pipe advertisement from a document stored in a shell environment variable. A symbolic name can be associated with the advertisement; this name can be used to search for the advertisement. A name must be supplied when creating a new group advertisement; this is the name of the peergroup.

Options

-p

Creates a pipe advertisement.

-t

This option is valid only for pipe advertisements and will be used to define the type of pipes. It is presently unimplemented.

-g

Creates a new peergroup advertisement. If no document is given, a clone of the current peergroup is created. The new peergroup will have the same services and endpoints as the current group. If a document argument is supplied, the document must be a peergroup advertisement and is used to create the new peergroup.

-d

This is the environment variable that contains a structured document that holds an advertisement.

Example

JXTA>importfile -f saveadv groupadv
JXTA>mygroupadv = mkadv -g -d groupadv
JXTA>mkpgrp -d mygroupadv mygroup

This creates a new peergroup from an advertisement created from a StructuredDocument that was imported from the saveadv file and stored in the groupadv environment variable. The new group is given the name mygroup. Before you can do anything with the group, you need to join it with the join command.

See Also

mkpipe , mkpgrp , join , whoami