I suspect that there are more Jini/JavaSpaces users than you suppose, if only because there is virtually no Sun marketing effort behind this ingenious technology. I have raised the question of its usage on my J/JS Group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/jini_javaspaces/message/698). It will be interesting to see if I get any response.
Gervas --- In [email protected], Patrick Balm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am probably the other guy using Jini in a production environment > and I totally agree with (t)his view. > So, thank you Gregg and a I wish you lots of discovery in 2008 ;-) > > On Dec 28, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Gregg Wonderly wrote: > > > jeffrschneider wrote: > > > 2. Gregg Wonderly will suggest either JXTA or Jini as an alternative > > > to some solution on each and every post. > > > > Quite while back I observed that most of the posts to this group > > were by fairly > > limited focus people who make money from products or services which > > they offer > > and which make it impossible for them to consider anything remotely > > capable of > > upsetting their focus. > > > > I've given up trying to convince anyone. Few if any of the > > disputers have > > actually deployed a Jini system in a production environment, from > > what I can > > tell. There are several misconceptions about Java and the RMI > > programming model > > that keep getting into printed text as supporting argument. > > Remember Anne's > > statement about everything in RMI being a remote reference? > > > > Here's my view on what's up for the next year or so... > > > > Microsoft is still pushing .Net as if they invented the concept of > > a virtual > > machine. It's really just a recreation of the basic principals of > > Java, which > > they recognized early on. The JVM has hundreds of languages that > > target it, > > most, it seems to make use of the large library of software > > provided by Java. It > > will be interesting to see how the evolution continues. The > > opensourcing of > > Java has created some different momentum in the Linux world it > > seems. There is > > an interest in moving towards a single execution environment it > > seems to me. > > We'll see how much the Java vs .Net camps move this year. > > > > We seem to continue to see the proliferation of scripting languages > > into more > > parts of production software. There is an ever evolving need to > > support people > > with limited programming experience and training to create more and > > more > > software. The result seems to be that less and less real design is > > creeping > > into more and more critical software (scripting happens the most at > > the top > > layer where software services are controlled by scripting). I think > > that over > > the next couple of years there will be dramatic number of computer > > system > > exploits and catastrophic failures as more and more broken software > > creeps out > > onto the network being used by people who have no idea how software > > could > > possibly be a security risk to them. > > > > Everyone seems to think that only one representation is needed for > > inter-machine > > communications, and that is XML. The semantic meaning, which is > > creeping into > > more and more XML document structures, indicate we are creating > > another > > programming language/layer. This requires everyone to support those > > semantics > > at all usage points with explicit coding, which will cause disparate > > implementations. So, I predict that this will be part and cause to > > many of the > > key problems which XML users get to deal with. > > > > Microsoft seems set on making XML become part of the accepted > > syntax of at least > > one .Net language. This seems to be certain to cause people to use > > more XML and > > less programming language code structure. The result will be less > > reusable code > > and more application specific code. It will be difficult to extract > > out > > application specific XML from general code structure. Thus, code > > base sizes > > will expand, perhaps dramatically, in this environment. > > > > We will all get to continue to depend on machine and OS vendors > > driving how we > > write software, instead of our real needs being met. For me, Jini > > allows all of > > my real needs to be met on all platforms/OSes with all the > > performance and > > security I need. > > > > Sigh...Hope everyone has a good 2008... > > > > Gregg Wonderly > > > > > > Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, > > Patrick Balm > JNet Consultancy B.V. > www.jnet.nl > > Powered by Common Sense > -------------------------------------------- > Postbus 1119 > 1500 AC ZAANDAM > > tel : +31 75 631 2525 > mobiel: +31 6 55 1077 49 > e-fax : +31 84 717 3557 > email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
