Jeff Schneider wrote:
>
> >POJO is empowering. The J2SE platform is very empowering when you can
> >exploit all of its features. Those that choose to ignore Jini are only
> >destined to recreate its features at some point. So I am still
> >wondering why people don't choose to start out ahead and use the power
> >of the Jini platform for their SOAs that use Java (or which could use
> >Java and be even better).
> >
> >Gregg Wonderly
>
> Gregg,
> Are you asking why people don't build heterogeneous, interoperable
> solutions both internally and between trading partners with Jini?
Well, in a sense, yes. But more importantly, why are people seemingly ignoring
Jini and even throwing out the term
POJO? The solution is aleady available. The next problems to solve with Jini
are deployment and management. If you
look at the things that the Cheiron.jini.org project is working on, that is the
next big ticket item. The complete
form, called Seven, is really cool based on what I saw it doing at the Jini
Community meeting last year in Boston.
With Seven, you can click through deployment and manage service lifecycle in
exactly the way that sysadmins appreciate.
The base features, in the cheiron project, will allow some competing product
development to occur.
Now that Jini is open source (version 2.0.2 was released under Apache last
week, and 2.1 is in beta), the door is wide
open for all the vendors to pick up the ball and run with it. They really
didn't have a lot of limitations before if
they were selling a product with a license, but now they have absolutely zero
licensing issues.
We'll see how this will develop over the next year. My bet is that the
majority of vendors will still choose huge,
complex proprietary systems over something based on Jini. The first vendor
that picks up Jini for their SOA base, will
have a 1-2 year head start on the others relying on the development of remain
WS-* technologies and vendor extensions
that might eventually provide the simple things that Jini already provides.
Gregg Wonderly
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