Automatic service discovery protocols

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Roland Tepp picture Roland Tepp · Oct 4, 2010 · Viewed 8.1k times · Source

I am currently looking into a variety of service discovery protocols available to Java and have come up with a small list:

There's probably more options, if so, I invite you to add tham to the mix.

I would love to get some objective listings of each protocol's pros and cons from people who have used one or many of these. How does implementation of publishing and discovering a service look like, what is the "chattiness" of the protocol, how reliable is it (both - the protocol and the implementations), does it require centralized service directory or is it p2p/decentralized etc.

Which one would you choose to provide seamless automatic discovery of multiple devices/services on the LAN?

Answer

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen picture Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen · Oct 4, 2010

jmdns - the underlying algorithms are much simpler than uPnP. Simplicity counts here.

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