Jini™ Specifications, The, Second Edition

LS.4. Generic Attribute Classes

We will now describe some attribute classes that are generic to many or all services and the JavaBeans components that are associated with each. Unless otherwise stated, all classes defined here live in the net.jini.lookup.entry package. The definitions assume the following classes to have been imported:

java.io.Serializable 
net.jini.entry.AbstractEntry 

LS.4.1. Indicating User Modifiability

To indicate that certain entry classes should only be modified by the service that registered itself with instances of these entry classes, we annotate them with the ServiceControlled interface.

public interface ServiceControlled {
} 

Authors of administrative tools that modify fields of attribute objects at the lookup ...