Dispatcher Extension

Summary

Thread pool dispatch strategy.

Extension Interface

com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.Dispatcher

Extension Configuration

<dubbo:protocol dispatcher="xxx" />
<!-- default configuration, will take effect if dispatcher attribute is not set in <dubbo:protocol> -->
<dubbo:provider dispatcher="xxx" />

Existing Extensions

• com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.transport.dispatcher.all.AllDispatcher
• com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.transport.dispatcher.direct.DirectDispatcher
• com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.transport.dispatcher.message.MessageOnlyDispatcher
• com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.transport.dispatcher.execution.ExecutionDispatcher
• com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.transport.dispatcher.connection.ConnectionOrderedDispatcher

Extension Guide

Directory layout:

src
 |-main
    |-java
        |-com
            |-xxx
                |-XxxDispatcher.java (Dispatcher implementation)
    |-resources
        |-META-INF
            |-dubbo
                |-com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.Dispatcher (plain text file with the content: xxx=com.xxx.XxxDispatcher)

XxxDispatcher.java：

package com.xxx;

import com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.Dispatcher;

public class XxxDispatcher implements Dispatcher {
    public Group lookup(URL url) {
        // ...
    }
}

META-INF/dubbo/com.alibaba.dubbo.remoting.Dispatcher：

xxx=com.xxx.XxxDispatcher