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

Diagram shows a XFN context containing atomic names bound to references