Re: Gnome VFS - plans for Gnome 2.8

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 08:52 +0800, James Henstridge wrote:

> On 26/03/04 02:07, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> 
> >I'd personally vote for SLP (www.openslp.org). It seems to fit much
> >better in large networks and in multiuser systems.
> >
> >Registration of services is really easy, either by config files
> >(/etc/slp.reg and /etc/slp.d/) or by the API. It only needs a
> >system-wide daemon, and, as some people say, it fits well in small
> >networks and scales perfectly for large networks.
> >  
> >
> Do we know what actual large organisations are using for service 
> discovery right now?  If no one is doing service discovery right now, 
> then we can probably choose the most elegant solution.
> 
well, not sure which others organizations are using it, but for
instance, Novell is using it in the Netware OS, as the standard service
location protocol. In www.openslp.org they mention also Axis
Communications (www.axis.com) and Sun, who has another SLP
implementation.

cheers