Why can't EJBs multicast?

[Doal Miller]

Tried to post this earlier. Sorry if it gets posted twice.

This may be an obvious or dumb question but under EJB restrictions it
says "Specifically, enterprise beans should not: ... listen on, accept
connections on, or multicast from a network socket".  I understand the
part about listening on sockets but why is it a problem to multicast? I
know EJBs can be socket clients. Isn't multicasting like being a client
since you are sending out a message rather than listening for it?

Also it seems that the clustering implementations are done by
multicasting, so it would seem that the Container is doing multicasting
itself. I know that's a little different but I would like to know the
reason why multicasting is outlawed.

 

Thanks,

Doal Miller

 


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