Comments on: Jini, the silent coming of age http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2004/07/01/jini-the-silent-coming-of-age/ Musings on reporting, OLAP, ETL, open source Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:44:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Benjamin Wilson http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2004/07/01/jini-the-silent-coming-of-age/#comment-255134 Benjamin Wilson Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:24:14 +0000 http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2004/07/01/jini-the-silent-coming-of-age/#comment-255134 snzs03mq2ycmaqj4 snzs03mq2ycmaqj4

]]> By: Rod Sprattling http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2004/07/01/jini-the-silent-coming-of-age/#comment-8944 Rod Sprattling Sat, 19 Aug 2006 17:23:58 +0000 http://www.nicholasgoodman.com/bt/blog/2004/07/01/jini-the-silent-coming-of-age/#comment-8944 I researched Jini, along with a number of other distributed computing service technologies, for use in a network-attached high-performance computing project. Jini's design provides all the SOA taste with none of the fat (or fallacies: see http://weblogs.java.net/jag/Fallacies.html) found in WS-* and GRID. But its utility is marooned on JVM islands, which limits its adoption in a heterognous computing world. In contrast JXTA, the peer-to-peer protocol from Sun that can be used to implement Jini-like functionality, was designed to span implementation technologies. There are Java and C reference implementations of JXTA. It's highly functional (even now more so than when I employed it) and well-suited to implement DCS architectures. I researched Jini, along with a number of other distributed computing service technologies, for use in a network-attached high-performance computing project. Jini’s design provides all the SOA taste with none of the fat (or fallacies: see http://weblogs.java.net/jag/Fallacies.html) found in WS-* and GRID. But its utility is marooned on JVM islands, which limits its adoption in a heterognous computing world.

In contrast JXTA, the peer-to-peer protocol from Sun that can be used to implement Jini-like functionality, was designed to span implementation technologies. There are Java and C reference implementations of JXTA. It’s highly functional (even now more so than when I employed it) and well-suited to implement DCS architectures.

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