Connecting on Endpoints

Now to place a call, you need a phone number. So, if, for example, you were looking for your nearest antiques dealer so you could get your ``Land of the Lost'' fix by purchasing a super groovy 1975 sleestack costume, made with loving care by Ben Cooper, then you would look in a phone book to find the nearest antiques dealer which dealt in ``Land of the Lost'' propaganda. Similarly, if you were looking to contact a particular process using GAT's interprocess communication mechanisms, then you would find and remove the corresponding Endpoint from an AdvertService.

Once you have a phone number to place a call you have to push those little numbered buttons to finally make a connection. Likewise, after obtaining an Endpoint from an AdvertService, one must take one final step before one can contact a second process. One must call the function, cunningly called, Connect. How precious.