JINI Discovery and Lookup (3)
Finding other network services (by service type or attributes)
- each service registers with attributes which allow discrimination between services of the same type
- generic attributes: name, location, manufacturer, model
- printer: b/w or color, resolution (dpi), speed (ppm), paper size (letter, legal, envelope)
- attributes:
- can be defined by service itself or administrator
- can have multiple values for some attributes
- can have co-dependent values
Incremental browsing: by service type, by attribute set class, by attribute value