22.3.2 On-Demand Forwarding

You can disable automatic pulling by setting the pull period to zero. In this case, the connector client will not pull any notifications from the agent until instructed to do so. Use the getNotifications method of the connector client to pull all notifications when desired. This method will immediately forward all notifications in the agent-side buffer. Again, it is not possible to limit the number of notifications that are forwarded except by limiting the buffer size.

In this example, we disable the automatic pulling and then trigger the notification broadcaster. The notifications will not be received until we request that the connector server pull them. Then, all of the notifications will be received at once.

Example 22–6 Pulling Notifications by Request

System.out.println(">>> Use pull mode with period set to zero.");
connectorClient.setMode(ClientNotificationHandler.PULL_MODE);
connectorClient.setPeriod(0);

System.out.println(">>> Have our MBean broadcast 30 notifications...");
params[0] = new Integer(30);
signatures[0] = "java.lang.Integer";
connectorClient.invoke(mbean, "sendNotifications", params, signatures);
System.out.println(">>> Done.");

// Call getNotifications to pull all buffered notifications from the agent
System.out.println("\n>>> Press Enter to pull the notifications.");
System.in.read();
connectorClient.getNotifications();

// Wait for the handler to process all notifications
Thread.sleep(100);

In the rest of our example, we use the on–demand forwarding mechanism to control how many notifications are buffered on the agent-side and thereby test the different caching policies.