The login process grants access to the system, provides authentication and provides facilities to facilitate the inter-communication between all the clients and servers on the system.
The login processor can exist on either the client or the server. At least one server level login processor must exist. To enhance performance, the login processor can multicast from the client.
The reason for including the multicast in the login processor because multicasts can only happen to currently active clients and servers. So the two tasks are tightly bound.
The login processor consists of the following components.
- User List
- Multicast Generator
The login processor has the following interface capabilities:
- direct access
- RMI access
- Info-bus access
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