Ah, that makes sense. Those class names are a little confusing, and so is the term "discovery" since it sounds like it should mean "runtime discovery of dynamic information" but static discovery actually means "discovery from a config file."
Since it sounds like you aren't planning to continue using your subclass, then no problem. Tim On Aug 3, 2017 9:51 AM, "Mark Raynsford" <list+org.apache.activ...@io7m.com> wrote: > On 2017-08-03T08:57:38 -0600 > Tim Bain <tb...@alumni.duke.edu> wrote: > > > > My question was why you needed to subclass it in the first place. > > Ah, that was down to an error in thinking on my part when looking at > the available network connectors. It went something like this: "Hm, need > a NetworkConnector. Don't seem to need 'discovery', don't seem to need > 'multicast', don't seem to need LDAP... Guess I'm supposed to provide > my own subclass". I only realized my mistake when I tracked down which > subclass is instantiated for the broker when running the binary > distribution from the command line (DiscoveryNetworkConnector). > > -- > Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com >