Re: Using ServiceStarter to launch a "proxy is service" service

Gregg Wonderly <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.jini
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dan Creswell wrote:
> I'd say it's almost a Jini Service philosophy kind of thing - "when
> programming Jini Services consider the keepalive problem, here's what's
> recommended for the back-end/proxy situation, here's what's sane for the
> proxy only situation" and so on.

Yep, I can see it both ways.  I'm just thinking more about the service
registration being a two way agreement which JoinManager and the API don't
really have lined up.

> Feels maybe like a pattern we should write up somewhere more than a code
> fix?

Definately should document it some how.  Not sure whether that's just text,
which to date we've had a hard time using to "teach" people about Jini, it seems
(not sure, just reflecting on the types of questions we get typically) or an API
representation that reveals the considerations where developers would be looking.

I'm also thinking about a layered JoinManager thing too, which might expose
registration of services, but allow plugability of the registration entity in
case ServiceRegistrar is not desired.

I've still got my ServiceLookup implementation that I need to cast into an API
that works for multiple types of registration entities, and so I still consider
this an important issue.

Gregg Wonderly

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