What Are The Entities Of Service Locator Pattern?

1.	What Are The Entities Of Service Locator Pattern?
Answer» Following are the entities of this type of design pattern. Service - Actual Service which will process the request. Reference of such service is to be looked upon in JNDI server. Context / Initial Context - JNDI Context carries the reference to service used for lookup purpose. Service Locator - Service Locator is a SINGLE point of contact to get services by JNDI lookup caching the services. Cache - Cache to STORE REFERENCES of services to reuse them. Client - Client is the OBJECT that invokes the services via ServiceLocator. Following are the entities of this type of design pattern.

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Following are the entities of this type of design pattern.

Service - Actual Service which will process the request. Reference of such service is to be looked upon in JNDI server.
Context / Initial Context - JNDI Context carries the reference to service used for lookup purpose.
Service Locator - Service Locator is a SINGLE point of contact to get services by JNDI lookup caching the services.
Cache - Cache to STORE REFERENCES of services to reuse them.
Client - Client is the OBJECT that invokes the services via ServiceLocator.

Following are the entities of this type of design pattern.

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