About Name Directory Service 
This article is contributed by Wang HaiLong.  
Introduction 
It seems that all the C/S based systems have similar architectures and work according to similar rules:  
1. There are usually 3 parts - client, server, name directory service.  
2. Server registers itself in a name directory.  
3. Client locates server in a name directory.  
  
This article lists such scenarios from aspects of Middle Ware and Network.  
Middle Ware 
COM+ 
A component registers itself in the registry table, while clients locate it from registry table.  
An active component registers itself with a Moniker in ROT (Running Object Table), while a client uses the Moniker to find the active component from ROT.  
CORBA
Clients can ask services from Interface Repository.  
  
The following code is extracted from <<Core Java 2 Volume II: Advanced Features>>.  
ORB orb = ORB.init(args, NULL);  
String [] Services = orb.list_initial_services();  
org.omg.CORBA.Object object = orb.resolve_initial_references("NameService");  
NamingContext namingContext = NamingContexthelper.narrow(objcet);  
EJB 
JNDI.  
rmiregistry for RMI. 
The following code is extracted from <<Core Java 2 Volume II: Advanced Features>>.  
String url = getCodeBase().getHost();  
url = "rmi://" + url;  
centralWarehouse = (Warehouse)Naming.lookup(url + "/central_warehouse");  
Network 
Socket 
A server needs to bind itself to port number before a client can connect it.  
Name Registration and Resolution  
Network programming concerns Address Families, Name Registration and Resolution.  
The following table is from << Network Programming for Microsoft Windows >>.  
Name Space Description Type  
NS_SAP Service Advertising Protocol (SAP) name space; used on IPX networks Dynamic  
NS_NDS NetWare Directory Services (NDS) name space; also used on IPX networks Persistent  
NS_DNS Domain Name System (DNS) name space; most commonly found on TCP/IP networks and on the Internet Static  
ND_NTDS Windows NT domain space; protocol-independent name space found on Windows 2000  
Reference 
<<Core Java 2 Volume II: Advanced Features>>  
<<Network Programming for Microsoft Windows>>  
   
 
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