DU.4. The LookupLocatorDiscovery Utility
DU.4.1. Overview
The The Jini Technology Core Platform Specification, “Discovery and Join”, states that the “unicast discovery protocol is a simple request-response protocol.” In a Jini application environment, the entities that participate in this protocol are a discovering entity (Jini client or service) and a Jini lookup service that acts as the entity to be discovered. The discovering entity sends unicast discovery requests to the lookup service, and the lookup service reacts to those requests by sending unicast discovery responses to the interested discovering entity.
The LookupLocatorDiscovery helper utility (belonging to the package net.jini.discovery) encapsulates the functionality required of ...
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