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 Hack
Value. --
CharlesMiller