[AG-TECH] AGService development problem
Ismail Bhana
i.m.bhana at reading.ac.uk
Sun Jan 14 04:31:05 CST 2007
Christoph Willing wrote:
>
> On 14/01/2007, at 1:01 AM, Ismail Bhana wrote:
>
>> I've been developing a set of node services called JMast
>> (JMastConsumer and JMastProducer services) which basically provide a
>> form of application sharing using streaming technologies. However,
>> whilst I can get the software to boot from AG 3.0.2 with parameters
>> passed correctly I'm having a problem where I'm being passed the same
>> multicast address/port as the vic tool which causes vic to crash. If
>> I change the Capabilities type (say, from "JMAST" to "jmast1") a
>> different address to vic is assigned in the first instance of
>> execution but the next time I run the software its back to giving me
>> the same address/port as vic and I can't really work out why.
>
>
> Ismail,
>
> I've seen this too in another service we've been developing and would
> be interested in knowing the cause.
>
> One thing I found which has lessened the problem somewhat, but not
> cured it completely, is to make (in your case) a JMastService i.e. not
> exclusively a Producer or Consumer service. Do that by adding
> Capability.CONSUMER etc. to the self.capabilities already in your
> Producer service. This is a bit like the normal VideoService, compared
> with VideoProducerService and VideoConsumerService. Then use the new
> JMastService as the producer service while still using your original
> JMastConsumerService as the consumer service.
>
Chris,
Thanks, I will give this a try.
Cheers,
Ismail
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