Hi!
Ari Suutari wrote:
> I was wondering trough various discussions in mail-archive about
> clustering. They all seem to indicate that JINI would be the technology
> to do it.
>
> It seems like a nice technology, indeed, but as I was going to
> use it in an other project, I discovered that the licensing scheme
> for it seems to be very complicated, looks like one has to start
> sending papers to Sun when it is used commercially.
This has been simplified a lot recently. See Ken Arnolds messages on the
subject in the JINI-USERS archives at archives.java.sun.com.
> So, when the future jBoss maybe includes JINI stuff, does one have
> to get into agreement with Sun before I can run it in a commercial
> site ? I hope I have understood these things wrong :-)
I believe you have :-)
All they want is that your app passes a minimal set of tests that make
sure that you "play nice" in a network. After all, that is the entire
idea with Jini.
regards,
Rickard
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Rickard Öberg
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