On 25 January 2013 05:47, Peter <j...@zeus.net.au> wrote: > Perhaps it might be time to make JERI a separate release. >
+1 I'm all for breaking the codebase down into recognisable/manageable components for our audience/us. Easier to get to grips with... > JERI method constraints allow authentication to occur prior to code download > and object deserialising. > > It Jini's pre JERI implementation that prevents it. Only secure discovery > takes advantage of it. With recent Java security scares, JERI offers an > opportunity to avoid those issues. You can't escape the sandbox if you can't > authenticate to even access it. > > Take JERI, make it modern and concurrent, release that separately. Don't feel we should let the focus on concurrent/modern stop us from getting something out the door. It'll be an organic process so.... > > Jini is restricted to Sun's JVM because of all the legacy cruft no one want's > to let go of. Why should JERI suffer the same fate? > Mmmm, what legacy cruft are you referring too? Not something I'd considered so interested... > Cheers, > > Peter. > > > ----- Original message ----- >> Interesting observation. >> >> So if I do a search in google for "customisable rmi" I don't get a hit >> on River. A quick wander through our docs says we don't present >> ourselves as having a superior RMI implementation (maybe we do but >> it's buried deep). >> >> We've got some conceptual stuff out there (good) but some grass roots >> (here's the hot bits of our tech) maybe not so much. >> >> So, we're not leveraging the obvious tools for discovery. That said, >> even if we were, we have to expect some people will reinvent wheels >> badly. Rob Gingell once observed that “those who do not use Jini are >> doomed to reinvent it.” >> >> On 24 January 2013 04:39, Gregg Wonderly <ge...@cox.net> wrote: >> > I didn't know about this project. The more things like this I see, the >> > more >> > it really seems River is hidden from view, more and more. >> > >> > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/dirmi/index.php?title=Dirmi >> > >> > Gregg Wonderly >
