When you turn on your cell phone, the first thing you see is the message looking for service. During the delay to follow your phone is busy locating the network and negotiating admission to it. This is called programming service discovery interfaces; it is not easy, but it's a prerequisite for all telecom services. This title teaches developers how to do it right. It explains and compares competing platforms: Bluetooth, Jini, Salutation, SLP and UPnP.
Golden G. Richard III, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans. He is the creator of a popular tutorial on service discovery presented at several leading conferences, including Mobicom. He is primarily a "systems guy," working in mobile computing and wireless networking. His current major interest is interoperability for service discovery.
Professor Richard received a B.S. degree in computer science with a minor in philosophy from the University of New Orleans, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the Ohio State University. When he's not hacking, he can be found consuming jazz, cooking, or covered in dirt in his garden.