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Universal Naming Service

The UANP is a protocol that defines how to interact with the WWC naming service. Similar to HTTP, UANP is text-based and defines methods that allow lookup, updates, and deletions of actors' names. UANP operates over TCP connections, usually the port 3030.

Every theater maintains a local registry where actors' locations are cached for faster future access. One can start a naming service as follows:

java -cp salsa<version>.jar:. wwc.naming.WWCNamingServer

The above command starts a naming service on the default port 3030. You can specify another port as follows:

java -cp salsa<version>.jar:. wwc.naming.WWCNamingServer -p 1256



Wei-Jen Wang
2007-11-28