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| Authors | Stefan Müller-Wilken, Winfried Lamersdorf |
| Title | Enhancing JINI to support Non-JAVA Parties |
| Published in | Proc. 4th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'2000) |
| Medium | Volume VII Number Part I |
| Organization | International Institute of Informatics And Systematics |
| Date | July 2000 |
| Pages | 78-83 |
| Abstract | With their introduction of the JAVA Intelligent Network Infrastructure, more commonly referred to as JINI, SUN Microsystems has presented a new and versatile way to design distributed systems. Based upon the consequent enforcement of only a small number of design principles (here especially discovery, lookup and leasing), JINI gives the means to create flexible, dynamic and robust application scenarios. Still, there is a huge drawback from the application designer's point of view: So far, JINI and its core component, the Lookup Service, are based on the assumption that all participants of a JINI scenario are JAVA--enabled. Especially with mobile system applications, this won't be realistic for some time to come and as even non--JAVA parties will gain a lot from being part of JINI scenarios, it is necessary to find enhancements to make them do so. This article describes a generic strategy to integrate non--JAVA parties into the JINI architecture, which provides a possibility to integrate arbitrary non--JAVA devices into the JINI community. |
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| Other formats | Din 1501 |