Life cycle of Channels

Blaze Channels are in one of five states:

Constructed - the Channel isn't initialized or has been shutDown

initialized -

you can explicitly initialize a Channel by invoking its init() method. At this point its Configuration is set

BlazeChannelFactory factory = new BlazeChannelFactory(); BlazeChannel channel = factory.createChannel(); channel.init();

started -

this will implicitly initialize the channel and start the Channel's underlying communication with its peers:

BlazeChannelFactory factory = new BlazeChannelFactory(); BlazeChannel channel = factory.createChannel(); channel.start();

stopped -

this will stop communication - however you are able to re-start the channel at a latter point

BlazeChannelFactory factory = new BlazeChannelFactory(); BlazeChannel channel = factory.createChannel(); channel.stop(); // do something else ... //re-start channel.start();

shut down

this will implicitly call stop() - and de-construct the channel. It is possible to re-initialize the channel again - and it is recommend that to apply configuration changes to the channel - it be shut down and re-started - e.g.

BlazeChannelFactory factory = new BlazeChannelFactory(); BlazeChannel channel = factory.createChannel(); channel.shutDown(); // change the congiguration channel.getConfiguration().setBroadcastURI("tcp://localhost:60661"); //re-start channel.start();

Life Cycle