Re: best way to send messages to many peers

On Sep 10, 2005, at 5:11 AM, Christoph Mueller wrote:

> John D. Blair wrote:
>> I am expecting to send a message to a large number of peers (100 to 
>> 1000) approximately once a minute over a unicast pipe.
>> I would like to avoid creating each pipe and then tearing it down for 
>> each message-- this doesn't seem very efficient.  Should I maintain 
>> an OutputPipe for each of these peers, storing them in a data 
>> structure so I can look them up when I need to deliver a message?  Is 
>> there a way I can offload this work onto JXTA so my app doesn't have 
>> to do this work itself?
>
> I might missunderstand the problem, but if you are sending the same 
> message at the same time to several peers, why don't you use a 
> broadcast pipe instead of a unicast pipe?

No, the messages are unique to each peer.

> Also see the reply from Mohamed Abdelaziz "Re: [JXTA user] resource 
> consumption for an open pipe" which to me indicates that keeping the 
> pipe open and storing it would be the most efficient way in this case

Yes, I am suspecting this is the answer.  I was hoping there was a 
shortcut where I could avoid managing all of the open pipe resources in 
my app.

  -j.