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Network-enabled devices and services have brought profound influence on our life. How to make these devices and services easily accessible to end users has become an important issue. An attractive way is through service lookup, such as the Jini Lookup Service. The problem is that services like the Jini Lookup Service require specialized system supports, e.g. Java and JVM. Applications that are not written with Java have difficulties to register to the Jini Lookup Service. Similarly, client devices without JVM have difficulties of accessing Jini Lookup Service. A gateway to bridge Jini and other systems is needed. In this thesis, we describe such a gateway system, which uses the World Wide Web as the interface between Jini and non-Jini systems. Inside the gateway system, we adopt COM and SOAP to bridge the two worlds. We also introduce several useful tools to build our gateway system and discuss some important implementation issues. With our gateway system, end users can register to or query from the Jini Lookup Server for their desirable services simply through Web browsers.
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