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copied!<p>I'm also curious to find the best cross-platform DNS-SD (Zeroconf, Bonjour, DNS self discovery) library exists out there.</p> <p>It does sound like <a href="http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Apple's DNS-SD dnssd.jar</a> is the "official" Java library that requires native library support on Windows, Linux, etc, but works out of the box on Mac OSX.</p> <p>There are other pure Java DNS-SD implementations, but it's unclear if any of them offer a library that is as easy to use or fully tested as DNS-SD (some of the projects appear to be abandoned for 2 years).</p> <ol> <li><a href="http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Official Apple DNS-SD mDNSResponder library</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.offthehill.org/articles/2008/01/08/a-jmdns-mdnsresponder-zeroconf-compatibility-interface/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">mDNSResponder and jmDNS integration</a> - There's been some work to create a library that provides a common DNS-SD interface to jmDNS and Apple's mDNSResponder implementation. <a href="http://www.offthehill.org/articles/2008/01/10/how-to-use-the-java-mdns-wrapper/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Instructions to use the jmDNS wrapper</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/waiter/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">waiter</a> - Described as a "modern DNS library and an effective DNS-SD (Service Discovery) library." It utilizes java NIO networking.</li> <li><a href="http://www.jmdns.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">jmDNS</a> - JmDNS provides easy-to-use pure-Java mDNS implementation that runs on JDK 1.4 and higher</li> <li><a href="http://www.java.net/project/multicast-dns-and-dns-sd-library" rel="nofollow noreferrer">JiveDNS</a> - "JiveDNS is a fork of the defunct JmDNS library, used for multicast DNS service discovery and registration." (it itself has not seen an SVN update in over 2 years)</li> </ol>

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