Federated Naming Service Programming Guide

XFN Contexts

An XFN context is an object that exports the XFN base context programming interface. A context contains a list of atomic names bound to references, as shown in Figure 1-5. An atomic name can have zero or more attributes. Contexts are at the heart of the lookup and binding operations, described extensively in Chapter 2, Interfaces for Writing XFN Applications.

Figure 1-5 An XFN Context

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