Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Jini Jini Jini (Zzzzz?)

Author:John Jensen
Posted:1/26/1999; 9:29:51 AM
Topic:Jini Jini Jini (Zzzzz?)
Msg #:2488 (In response to 2487)
Prev/Next:2487 / 2489

Andy wrote: "Internet standards such as XML-RPC and Dave's fractional horsepower HTTP servers teamed up with Palm-Pilot browser based UI would seem to be sufficient.

Well, they are certainly sufficient for a wide catagory of problems. The classic benefits of distributed systems are transparent management of network resources. If all the disk drives in an office are treated as a pool, you get some easy RAID-style redundancy and fault tollerance. It shouldn't really matter in this day and age if your hard disk dies or not. You should still be able to boot and get to your work. It isn't that big a change in technology from the current PC network ... just little bit of code to support network booting and a little bit of code to support a distributed filesystem. The problem is how to get the technology into a Windows world.

Andy wrote: "Jini is probably more a political creature, trying to privatize a public marketplace, than new technology bringing needed functionality just-in-time for the home market."

If you believe in the distrubted solution, you have to find a way to get it in play. That Jini is targeted the way it is may be less political than simply strategic: Which is easier, to get everybody to throw over Windows for a distributed OS, or to slide a little distributed technology into those markets which will accept it?

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