Describe the use of IP multicast and group names in the Jini ‘discovery’ service which allows clients and servers to locate lookup servers.

What will be an ideal response?



Each lookup service has a set of groups associated with it. A client or server needing to locate a lookup server specifies the names of a set of groups (they are interested in) in a multicast request.

Lookup servers belonging to those groups reply by sending a proxy. Lookup servers also advertise the groups they are associated with when they send their “I am here” messages.

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