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Foil 46 JINI Glossary

From Directory Services for the Internet CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- June 7 99. by Roman Markowski


RMI: core of Jini communication; object oriented RPC system; allows make Java objects available across a network
Discovery: the process a service uses to notify the Jini federation that it is available (followed by Join process)
Join: the process a service uses to inform Federation about itself
Federation: Jini network, a group of cooperation objects
Java Spaces: a standard service that provides one way to store objects; a network objects repository
Proxy Object: a remote Jini object. The Lookup service holds the local proxy object and provides it to clients
Transaction: a client attempt an operation on multiple objects (allows multi-object coordination)



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