Hi!
Aaron Mulder wrote:
> I'm not a big fan of broadcasts for lookups. I once worked in an
> OS/2 and LAN Server environment, where the network was crippled for
> minutes at a time by broadcast storms.
There will not be broadcast storms.
> I guess we don't want to design
> our product around poor network implementations, but... Just please make
> sure to cache this information wherever possible to minimize the
> broadcasts.
Yes, the info will be cached.
> Also, this really can't be the only way - one of the apps I worked
> on was a big fat applet that talked directly to an EJB back end, and the
> client was most certainly on a different subnet. You can make
> broadcasting the *preferred* way, but not the *only* way.
Correct, and Jini *does* support that too, but it's not the preferred
way.
/Rickard
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