Jini Notes

Keywords to identify jini. Jini uses well-known interfaces to provide plumbing for jini services for spontaneous networking between devices and applications.

Jini services use a discovery protocol to form into communities. Jini communities are fault-tolerant and self-healing.

original author's opinion: Jini will emerge to dominate the PeerToPeer future internet.

I wish it would. I've had JiniTechnology on my list of Neat Things for several years now. I even proposed it as a solution to a project that never took off, but wanted self-healing, fault tolerant distributed services. But it's taking a little too long to make the move from "good idea" to "practical application". If I could find a Jini-enabled stereo, or even toaster, I'd be willing to buy it just for the HackValue. -- CharlesMiller