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Foil 45 An Overview of Jini

From The Document Object Model - Universal Access - Other Objects - CORBA XML Jini JavaScript etc. Tango Seminar to DoD Modernization MSRC -- April 6 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 http://www.sun.com/jini/ and also see very interesting Ninja project at UC Berkeley http://ninja.cs.berkeley.edu/
2 Jini is an innovative distributed computing capability that has features that
  • 1) Naturally follow from Java Implementation or
  • 2) Are interesting architectural choices
3 Jini enables services to be dynamically linked to users of services
  • It is a technology to produce a federation of linked clients and servers
  • It imagines not a giant monolithic system but rather dynamic collections of dynamic collections
  • Both users and services can dynamically join or leave a Jini federate on a time period of seconds (or longer of course).
4 Services can be printers, home stereo components, computers or pieces of software or ....
5 All Jini federate members must support the Java VM or be represented by a proxy that does

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