Product: OpenFusion Trading Service

Version: ALL

Description:

What is the Trading Service?

Resolution:

The Trading Service is a sophisticated mechanism for locating server objects based on a description of requirements, rather than simple names.

Objects register their services with the Trading Service, specifying a set of property values that describe the service that they are offering. Other objects can use the Trading Service to locate a server that provides a required service, based on these property values. The Trading Service matches the required service property values with those supplied by the servers when they registered.