A service acquisition mechanism for the client/service model in Cygnus

Three of the most important issues in exploiting network servers concern how to specify services so that service-server bindings can be changed dynamically without disturbing clients, how to make clients resilient to network or server failure, and how to accommodate server protocol heterogeneity to provide a single system view to the clients. A service acquisition mechanism is presented for solving these issues. This mechanism is designed under a client/service model in which the abstraction of service is a first-class entity. The components of the mechanism are discussed.<
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