PORT NUMBER RETRIEVAL SYSTEM PORT NUMBER RETRIEVAL METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PORT NUMBER RETRIEVAL PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING INSTALLER

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a client program to dynamically acquire the port number of a service program. ;SOLUTION: A server machine 2 receives a service name for indicating a service to wish to perform communication from a client program 3 operated in a client machine 1 and retrieves a service file 6 in which the service name and a port number are made to correspond to each other by a port number retrieval device 5 provided on the server machine. Thus, the port number corresponding to the service name is returned to the client program.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO