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Jini aims to prove it can grant wishes
News Jini, a Sun Microsystems Inc.technology introduced in July, is supposed to let you control your computer, kitchen appliances and sprinkler system from remote locations. Basically, Jini is a piece of Java software code that ties the Java Virtual...
[January 25, 1999, 9:45]
Jini starting to fly
News Computer and network software maker Sun Microsystems Inc.unveiled strong backing on Monday for Jini, its network-simplifying technology. Major companies set to announce support for Jini include printer makers Hewlett-Packard Co.and Canon Inc.cell...
[January 26, 1999, 9:52]
Jini brings 'em all together
News Jini -- the Java Intelligent Network Infrastructure - links anything that can run Java, has networking capabilities, and offers automatic configuration and connection. Announced last July, Jini has attracted interest from the likes of Sony, Philips...
[January 26, 1999, 10:18]
US Report: Jini stuck in its bottle?
News Sun Microsystems Jini project brought oohs and aahs when it was unveiled to the national media last month. Jini promises to revolutionise computing by letting any device plug into a network and make its services available to any other device.
[August 4, 1998, 12:11]
Sun lets Jini out of the proprietary bottle
News Sun on Wednesday released its latest Jini development toolkit under the Apache open source licence. Jini was originally released in 1999 as a way to link consumer devices to Java. But companies using the Jini software have been using it mainly for...
[October 20, 2005, 13:45]
Sun's Jini gets new lease of life
News Sun Microsystems says its much-hyped Jini software is finding a new use in nuts-and-bolts business applications, rather than in networks of futuristic consumer gadgets as the company originally intended.
[May 12, 2003, 11:48]
Veitch Speaks: Sun's dream of Jini
News You don't have to be an expert on connectivity, Java or the vagaries of look-up services to realise that Sun's plan to make its Jini technology the peripheral connectivity standard is pretty ambitious.
[January 30, 1999, 7:11]
A Year Ago: Veitch Speaks: Sun's dream of Jini
News You don't have to be an expert on connectivity, Java or the vagaries of look-up services to realise that Sun's plan to make its Jini technology the peripheral connectivity standard is pretty ambitious.
[January 30, 2000, 6:11]
IBM shies away from Jini
News Jini is the first technology that IBM is not fully backing and while developers say Jini is as revolutionary as Java itself, IBM's lack of support is a big departure from the previous everyone-but-Microsoft alliance.
[February 10, 1999, 11:46]
JISGA: A Jini-Based Web Service-Oriented Grid Architecture
White Papers This paper describes how to extend a Jini system into an OGSA-compliant infrastructure for Grid computing by introducing Web service techniques into the Jini system. The Jini-based Service-oriented Grid Architecture (JISGA) is presented, the...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Shades of Jini
Talkback I fully agree with your analysis, in particular with Ron Schmelzer's point of view : the key issue is platform- and language-independence. What is missing in your article is that WS-Discovery does not stand alone : together with WS-Eventing and...
[March 10, 2004, 13:11]
Sun unveils secret weapon Part II
News Sun no doubt hopes Jxta will be more successful than its predecessors -- two other Joy brainchildren, Java and Jini -- in luring the help of the open-source movement. Well after Java and Jini were created, Sun tried to attract the attention of the...
[February 16, 2001, 8:56]
Sun taps into rise of RFID
News The software, which is built on Sun's Java programming architecture and Jini networking technology, attempts to simplify integration of data collected via radio frequency identification (RFID) systems into other software applications.
[June 1, 2004, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News As the launch for Jini unfolds, I realise that the technology would have entirely solved my problems. Then it comes back: I'm in San Francisco and I'm here for the launch of Sun's Jini networking technology.
[January 30, 1999, 8:39]
Jesse Berst: How Sun and Microsoft are slowing us down
News And it is Sun Microsystems who is doing most of the promising, under the umbrella of its Jini initiative. Jini and UPnP are the most prominent examples of "distributed computing" or "ubiquitous computing" -- the idea that computing power will be...
[September 2, 1999, 10:01]
Sun (almost) opens Solaris
News Community Source is a quasi-open source license that Sun announced in December for Jini, Java and its Java Workshop development tool. When you license Jini and return changes, you're not giving them to Sun, you're giving them to the Jini community.
[February 26, 1999, 12:04]
Sun's Joy rips Windows 2000
News He also talked about why and how Sun is furthering Java and its Java-based applications environment, Jini. Naturally, Joy extolled object-centric computing and the ways that Jini will make such a world a reality.
[May 6, 1999, 7:36]
Sun, MS duke it out over digital home
News Using Jini -- Sun's self-organising networking for appliances -- a cell phone could be used to turn off the lights at home. In showing off the guts of its digital home -- a one-room prototype built into a convention hall meeting room -- Sun focused...
[January 10, 2000, 9:26]
Sun rallies hackers against Microsoft
News But Joy explained to the audience that Sun was trying to take the best of both the open-source and proprietary worlds and synthesise them into its community licensing agreement for Jini. To develop its community licensing for Jini, Joy said his...
[August 25, 1999, 9:02]
MS plugs home network developer kits
News We're trying to make that the standard in the market," though there are competitors such as the years-old but very basic X10, the more recent Cebus and Sun Microsystems' Jini. While Jini attracted early partners such as Whirlpool, Sun has been...
[April 17, 2002, 15:59]
