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Salutation can have several meanings.

A technique is a way of efficiently accomplishing a task in a manner that is not immediately obvious or straightforward. ... Service discovery protocols are network protocols which allow automatic detection of devices and services offered by these devices on a computer network. ... Service Management is a method for handling services, especially (but not limited to) the Information- and Communication Technology (ICT). ...

See also

The Service Location Protocol (SLP) allows computers and other devices to find services in a local area network without prior configuration. ... Zeroconf or Zero Configuration Networking or in Microsoft language Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) is a set of techniques that automatically create a usable IP network without configuration or special servers. ... The OSGi Alliance is an open standards organization formed by Sun Microsystems, IBM, Ericsson and others in March 1999 (after it was first called the Connected Alliance). ... JINI™ is a pseudo-acronym: Jini Is Not Initials that refers to a network architecture for the construction of distributed systems where scale, rate of change and complexity of interactions within and between networks are extremely important and cannot be satisfactorily addressed by existing technologies. ... Universal plug-and-play (UPnP) is a set of computer network protocols promulgated by the UPnP Forum. ... This article is about the Bluetooth wireless specification. ...

References

  • Golden G. Richard: Service and Device Discovery : Protocols and Programming, McGraw-Hill Professional, ISBN 0071379592

External links

  • The Salutation Consortium®
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • Let’s communicate
  • technique comparison
  • Mapping Salutation Architecture APIs to Bluetooth Service Discovery Layer
  • Citations from CiteSeer

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Salute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3959 words)
When the Nazi party of Germany adopted the Roman salute from the Italian fascists, President of the United States Franklin Roosevelt instituted the hand-over-the heart as the salute to be rendered by civilians during the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem in the United States.
Kosovo's KLA uses a salute similar to the British military-salute, except that the fingers are clenched into a fist and the knuckles pressed against the temple, a gesture originating with the communist movement.
Gun salute by aircraft, primarily displayed during funerals, began with simple fly-overs during World War I and have evolved into the missing man formation, where either a formation of aircraft is conspicuously missing an element, or where a single plane abruptly leaves a formation.
Salute - definition of Salute in Encyclopedia (2869 words)
The origin of this salute is unknown, though one theory suggests that it probably originated when men-at-arms wore armor, a friendly approach would include holding the reins of the horse with the left hand while raising the visor of the helmet with the right, so that one could be recognised.
As naval customs evolved, the 21-gun salute came to be reserved for heads of states, and a lesser numbers of guns or unshots were used to salute lower ranking officials.
Aerial salutes by aircraft, primarily displayed during funerals, began with simple fly-overs during World War I and have evolved into the missing man formation, where either a formation of aircraft is conspicuously missing an element, or where a single plane abruptly leaves a formation.
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