An Overview of Jini
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 that has features that
- 1) Naturally follow from Java Implementation or
- 2) Are interesting architectural choices
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).
Services can be printers, home stereo components, computers or pieces of software or ….
All Jini federate members must support the Java VM or be represented by a proxy that does