- How does the client program find out about objects on the server?
- Many possible solutions
- Bootstrapping IOR file used by command-line client
- Server writes out and identifier for a well-known object to a file
- Client reads this file and uses it to contact the object
- The contents of the fetched document are a string that the client can use to contact a specific object
- This string is analogous to the hostname/port number pair used to address a web server, however, it is not human friendly
- It looks like IOR:002A0011FC2560A...
- Bootstrapping URL used in the applet
- Client program contacts a well-known URL
- It fetches this URL
- The data fetched from this URL is also an IOR andis used as above
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