| 摘要 |
A method of enabling collaboration between software components distributed across a plurality of data processing resources connected by a data processing network, said software components including service components (32) capable of collaborating to perform tasks and management components (34, 36, 38) for supporting collaboration of the service components, wherein said service components are capable of collaborating across a plurality of service platforms, each said service platform comprising a plurality of service components and a platform management component for controlling the registration of service components in the service platform, a component on a service platform being identifiable by at least one network address, said method comprising: transmitting a query from a first service platform to a second service platform, said query requesting identification of one or more further service platforms; and receiving a response from said first service platform, said response including data defining a network address of a third service platform.
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