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Enable the Class

Now, we need to enable the class CounterService. The declarative way of doing this is shown below.

<network>
   <join><multicast enabled="true"/> </join>
</network>
<services>
   <service enabled="true">
      <name>CounterService</name>
      <class-name>CounterService</class-name>
   </service>
</services>

CounterService is declared within the services configuration element.

  • Setting the enabled attribute as true enables the service.
  • The name attribute defines the name of the service. It should be a unique name (CounterService in our case) since it will be looked up when a remote call is made. Note that the value of this attribute will be sent at each request, and that a longer name value means more data (de)serialization. A good practice is to give an understandable name with the shortest possible length.
  • class-name is the class name of the service (CounterService in our case). The class should have a no-arg constructor. Otherwise, the object cannot be initialized.

Note that multicast is enabled as the join mechanism. In the later sections for the CounterService example, we will see why.



RELATED INFORMATION

Please refer to the Services Configuration section for a full description of Hazelcast SPI configuration.