<div class="wiki-content maincontent"><h3 id="ZeroConfTransportReference-TheZeroConfTransport">The ZeroConf Transport</h3>

<p>The ZeroConf transport works just like <a shape="rect" href="discovery-transport-reference.html">Discovery Transport</a>, except that it uses a <a shape="rect" href="zeroconf.html">ZeroConf</a> based discovery agent to locate the list of broker uris to connect to.</p>

<h4 id="ZeroConfTransportReference-ConfigurationSyntax">Configuration Syntax</h4>

<p><strong>zeroconf:serviceName?transportOptions</strong><br clear="none">
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<strong>zeroconf:serviceName</strong></p>


<p>where <em>serviceName</em> is the Zeroconf service name; which seems to start with an underscore (_) and must end with a dot (.). So we can use this service name to distinguish development, UAT &amp; production brokers - or group them into domains etc.</p>

<p>Note that to be able to use ZeroConf to find brokers, the brokers need to have <a shape="rect" href="discovery.html">Discovery</a> enabled. To configure discovery in a Broker you should use the <a shape="rect" href="xml-configuration.html">Xml Configuration</a>. Its basically something like...</p>

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&lt;broker name="foo"&gt;
  &lt;transportConnectors&gt;
    &lt;transportConnector name="openwire" uri="tcp://0.0.0.0:61616" discoveryUri="zeroconf:_activemq_development. /&gt;
  &lt;/transportConnectors&gt;
  ...
&lt;/broker&gt;
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<h5 id="ZeroConfTransportReference-ExampleclientURI">Example client URI</h5>

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<pre>zeroconf:_activemq_development.
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