jini

问题 Everyone I talk to who knows (knew) about it claims it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Why did it fail? Or, if it didn't fail, who's using it now? 回答1: Check out GigaSpaces. It's a quite successful Jini/Javaspaces implementation. I think Jini has a great model, but it is stuck with Java. Web-services is more appealing because it works with standarized protocols, even though Jini service discovery is more natural. 回答2: Things have definitely quited down for the idea. Which is

问题 I started to use Sun's ClassDep as a solution to fight the inclusion of unnecessary JARs in my resulting WAR application. It seems to rock. However, this beast is hard to tame! I'm getting several errors of classes not found even if they are explicitly included in the classpath I pass to it. Example: couldn't find: org.apache.log4j.Logger: No file for: Logger couldn't find: org.hibernate.Session: No file for: Session couldn't find: org.joda.time.LocalDate: No file for: LocalDate HOWEVER...

问题 It seems that JINI is pretty much an abandoned project. The latest release from the Jini.org site is from last year, and there has been no news since then. JINI appears to be very useful to provide services in a completely distributed minor. What happened to this technology? Also what has replaced this technology? The thread that I linked to claims that web services have replaced this technology. However, web services are strictly a client and server setup, not meant for dynamic distribution