public static ProtocolStackConfigurator getStackConfigurator(URL url) throws Exception {
        checkForNullConfiguration(url);
        checkJAXPAvailability();
        return XmlConfigurator.getInstance(url);
    }
public static ProtocolStackConfigurator getStackConfigurator ( URL url ) throws Exception { checkForNullConfiguration ( url ) ; checkJAXPAvailability ( ) ; return XmlConfigurator . getInstance ( url ) ; }
Returns a protocol stack configurator based on the XML configuration provided at the specified URL.

@param url a URL pointing to a JGroups XML configuration.
@return a {@code ProtocolStackConfigurator} containing the stack configuration.
@throws Exception if problems occur during the configuration of the protocol stack.