What persistent information is a Jini service required to maintain?
Created May 4, 2012
Tim Rohaly The Jini specifications require that services maintain some state information
across service crashes and restarts. This persistent state includes:
- The service ID. Once a service ID is acquired, that same service ID must be used each time the service registers with a lookup service. A service ID allows the service to be uniquely identified.
- The set of service attributes that were used when registering the service. Clients may look up services by matching attributes, so a service must ensure that it registers with the same set of attributes in all lookup services.
- The set of lookup groups the service has joined. The service should participate in the same groups when restarted.
- The set of lookup services in which the service should register using unicast discovery.