LD.2. The Interface

The LookupDiscoveryService interface defines the service—referred to as the lookup discovery service—previously introduced in this specification. Through this interface, other Jini services and clients may request that discovery processing be performed on their behalf. This interface belongs to the net.jini.discovery package, and any service implementing this interface must comply with the definition of a Jini service. This interface is not a remote interface; each implementation of this service exports a front-end proxy object that implements this interface local to the client, using an implementation-specific protocol to communicate with the actual remote server (the back end). All of the proxy methods must obey normal ...

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