The Jini™ Specifications (Jini Series) - Softcover

Arnold, Ken; O'Sullivan, Bryan; Scheifler, Robert W.; Waldo, Jim; Wollrath, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201616343 ISBN 13: 9780201616347

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1999

Synopsis

The authoritative Jini technical guide written by the original Jini technology team.

About this title

Review:

What does Sun's Jini technology mean for the future of distributed computing? To find out, take a look at The Jini Specification, a guide written for IS managers and Java developers alike.

The book starts with a discussion of what Jini is and how it works. (In short, Jini allows Java clients to invoke remote services easily through Java.) The authors present a chat message server and explain the Jini architecture in which clients look up and "lease" remote services.

The core of the book covers classes in the Jini specification. First there's an overview of Jini illustrated with a printer service. Then it takes a close look at how clients "discover" Jini services, either through multicast or unicast protocols. The authors also present useful built-in utility classes here.

Next comes material on storing entries for Jini services (used for identifying them across the network) and the classes used to "lease" remote services. An interesting section on remote events contrasts these with local JavaBean events. Following this is a discussion of Jini transactions, including the two- phase commit process used to manage work done remotely.

Later the book turns to the new JavaSpaces classes which permit sharing data between Java processes in order to facilitate parallelism. An intriguing appendix reprints a white paper in which the Sun team outlines its philosophy of distributed computing. They argue that local and remote objects need to be handled differently: object location transparency is a myth.

With its mix of technology briefing and nuts-and-bolts detail The Jini Specification offers a valuable perspective on the latest advance in Java distributed computing from Sun. --Richard Dragan

From the Author:

You will get the full specification, overview, and examples
We wanted to give you the direct information of what the Jini architecture is and how it works. The first part of the book gives you an overview of the Jini design and philosphy, as well as several practical examples you can use to understand the Jini architecture and from which you can start your own work. After this detailed overview comes the specification itself, followed by a glossary and other useful information.

About this edition

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0201616343
• ISBN 13: 9780201616347
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400