Very interesting, we have basically ported Zeroconfig as released by Apple (in Open Source) too, and used it in both our Virtuoso 3.x and UDA 5.x products.
Howl is Rendezvous for Windows and Linux. [via Scripting News]
In the case of UDA you can configure ODBC and JDBC consumable data source names that are hosted on the server. Users can nownbspsimply picknbspDSNs from anbspcombo box and they are ready to make connections to remote databases from any ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, or ADO.NET application.nbspAnother benefit ofnbspZeroconfignbspis that it facilitates centralized server side configuration which further enhances our server side session rules book;nbspwhich serves all our Multi-Tier data access drivers.
In the case of Virtuoso you are able to bind to pre-configured Virtuoso instances in exactly the same way.
Our Zeroconfig support has beennbspimplemented across Solaris, AIX, Digital UNIX, IRIX, HP-UX amongst others, but this is a project of interest all the same, and we may end up contributing to this effort.