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Upon constructing an Endpoint one needs to place it ``in the phone book'' so people can actually ``call'' you.
What's the point in having a phone if no one cal talk to you? To make your Endpoint known to other processes,
you place it in the AdvertService. As an Endpoint is Advertisable, the steps involved in placing it in the AdvertService
are the same as for any other Advertisable: Create meta-data associated with this Advertisable, a Table instance,
and associate this Advertisable with the meta-data through a single call to the AdvertService. By placing this
Endpoint in the AdvertService you've primed the pump for other processes to ``call you up.''
Andre Merzky
2004-05-13
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