JINI Discovery and Lookup (1)

• Discovery and Lookup is the key component of the Jini infrastructure

• Network service

  • for finding other network services “workgroup”-scale, not the entire Internet

• not a naming or directory service

  • X.500, LDAP, DNS, NDS, RMI registry

• Focus is on types, not names

  • yellow pages, not white pages

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