Extending Hazelcast User Defined Services Enabling the Service Calls

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>

The CounterService is declared within the services configuration element.

• Set the enabled attribute to true to enable the service.
• Set the name attribute to 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.
• Set the class-name attribute to 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.