A Practical Guide to Jini Network Technology

Brian Murphy, Senior Staff Engineer was a fantastic speaker and got more information across in his 1 hr timeframe than any other presentation so far. He has worked on the Jini project since it's inception. He started off with an overview of what Jini is. He also stressed that local objects are different than remote and should be treated accordingly. The decision to make a given object local or remote should be determined early in the development process. All and all, Jini is something that I'm very interested in and I need to do a sample app to get a grasp on how I could use it.

What is Jini Technology

• Service based architecture for building networked systems that can adapt to change
• set of specifications
• a programming model
• Contributed implementations(Jini Technology Starter Kit)
• A Community

Summary
Jini technology is a programming model
Jini technology places the agreement in the interface, not the protocol
Jini technology security model extends the java security model, it doesn't reinvent the wheel
Think of development and deployment as separate activities
develop with deployment in mind
always 'security ready'

Links
Jini.org
Presentation