JXTA in a Nutshell

Name

OutputPipe

Synopsis

Output pipes are used to send messages to another peer. Messages are sent unreliably: when the send( ) method returns, the message has been sent to the network, but there is no way to determine when or if the message has been delivered (though it is, of course, possible to build such a protocol yourself on top of JXTA pipes).

Output pipes are created by the createOutputPipe( ) method of the pipe service. This method requires an input pipe as a parameter; when the method returns, the output pipe will have connected to the input pipe. Such a connection may transparently span multiple networks and firewalls.

public interface OutputPipe {
// Public Instance Methods
   public abstract void close();  
   public abstract void send(net.jxta.endpoint.Message msg) throws IOException;
}

Passed To

OutputPipeEvent.OutputPipeEvent()

Returned By

OutputPipeEvent.getOutputPipe(), PipeService.createOutputPipe()