Discover (find) and join a community of Jini technology-enabled devices
Advertise its capabilities
Provide any required software and attributes – no drivers required
Requires only one Java Virtual Machine on the network
Send out a multicast packet with reference to yourself
Receive a RMI reference to the Lookup Service
Innovative Solution for Finding the Place to Start in an Unknown Network
Jini Technology Infrastructure:
Discovery & Join

| Jini Technology Infrastructure: Discovery & Join
| One of the key components of the Jini platform itself is called Discovery, the software that addresses the issue of how devices and software register with the network. When you plug a Jini-enabled device into the network, it drops a Discovery packet onto the network that enables it to be identified by the Jini Lookup service. The Discovery packet enables Jini services to find and join a Jini community, advertise their capabilities to the community of users, find and retrieve any needed software, and work with any device.