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