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Foil 77 Jini will be a focus of Activities in Java Grande Concurrency Group

From Integration of Web and Distributed Object Technologies in a New Generation of Grande Programming Environments PDPTA Las Vegas -- June 28 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox
http://www.sun.com/jini/ and also see very interesting Ninja project at UC Berkeley http://ninja.cs.berkeley.edu/
Jini is an innovative distributed computing capability with a classic 3 tier architecture with client, lookup service (called broker or server in other architectures) and service provider (the backend)
  • There are four basic operations: Discovery, Join, Lookup, and Service Invocation
  • Jini Services automatically register with Jini lookup servers and lease an entry there
Jini enables services to be dynamically linked to users of services
  • It is a technology to produce a federation of linked clients and servers
Will carry us from collections of computers to enormous collections of devices -- the next Grande problem!
Bill Joy
Greg Papadopoulos

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