Dynamically Configuring Communication Services with the Service Configurator Pattern

A rapidly growing collection of communication services are now available on the Internet. A communication service is a component in a server that provides capabilities to clients. Services available on the Internet include: WWW browsing and content retrieval services (e.g., Alta Vista, Apache, Netscape’s HTTP server); software distribution services (e.g., Castinet), electronic mail and network news transfer agents (e.g., sendmail and nntpd), file access on remote machines (e.g., ftpd), remote terminal access (e.g., rlogind and telnetd), routing table management (e.g., gated and routed), host and user activity reporting (e.g., fingerd and rwhod), network time protocols (e.g., ntpd), and request brokerage services (e.g., orbixd and RPC portmapper).