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====supportsServiceDiscovery ()====
<code java>public boolean supportsServiceDiscovery ()</code>

//**Aware IM**// supports service discovery mechanism – it may send a special request through the channel to find out which services are supported by an intelligent business object. The ''supportsServiceDiscovery'' method is supposed to return whether it supports the service discovery mechanism (for custom channels it should return false).

===Parameters===
none

===Returns===
true if services can be discovered through this channel