JXTA in a Nutshell

Name

Message

Synopsis

Objects that implement this interface represent the data sent over pipes or an endpoint. Messages contain source and destination addresses, and a payload that consists of one or more message elements. Each message element has a particular MIME type (usually “text/xml”).

Message objects are typically created via the createMessage( ) method of the pipe service, which creates a message with the appropriate addresses and an empty payload. The newMessageElement( ) method is used to create elements that are subsequently added to the payload via the addMessageElement( ) method.

public interface Message {
// Property Accessor Methods (by property name)
   public abstract EndpointAddress getDestinationAddress();  
   public abstract void setDestinationAddress(EndpointAddress dstAddress); 
   public abstract MessageElementEnumeration getElements();  
   public abstract net.jxta.util.StringEnumeration getNames();
   public abstract java.util.Enumeration getNamespaces();  
   public abstract EndpointAddress getSourceAddress();  
   public abstract void setSourceAddress(EndpointAddress srcAddress);
// Public Instance Methods
   public abstract void addElement(MessageElement add);  
   public abstract Object clone();  
   public abstract boolean equals(Object o);  
   public abstract byte[ ] getBytes(String qname);  
   public abstract MessageElement getElement(String name);  
   public abstract String getString(String elementName);  
   public abstract boolean hasElement(String nsname);  
   public abstract MessageElement newMessageElement ...