Re: A real jini service

Tommy tommy wrote:
> Hi to everybody,
>
> I have developed a chat that uses the sockets for the communication
> between clients and sever. The client is composed from 2 classes (A class
> for GUI and a class for the comunications).
> Can I export 2 classes (that they compose an only service) on the Lookup
> Service?. Is this chat service a Jini Service if it uses sockets?
>
> I'm confused about this.... :)

While I believe there is no formal definition of what represents a "Jini
service" I would say that if your chat service is specified by a (Java)
interface (representing the chat API) and that some service code
implements that interface and the service is able to find a lookup
service and register the code with the lookup service you have a Jini
service. It doesn't matter whether you implement the communication
protocol using RMI or plain sockets, or something else for that matter.

In case of a GUI I would adhere though to the ServiceUI specification
which in short means that you register your GUI as a lookup attribute
with the lookup, have a look here: http://www.artima.com/jini/serviceui/

Hope this helps,
--
Mark

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