Cool, Thanks :) I didn't cross post to your dev list... I'll leave that up to your judgement.
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Greg Trasuk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gus: > > Welcome to Jini/River! > > I had a quick look at your GitHub issue last night, and it looks like your > reasoning is sound. Indeed, one of Jini’s great unsung features is the > auto-configuration behaviour. It’s truly amazing to see a working system > come up where the components literally start out with no idea what other > components are out there or where they are. > > I’ll read and comment more deeply on your application in a day or so. > Unfortunately I’m a little swamped right now - For now I just wanted to > acknowledge the question and let you know there was support here. > > Cheers, > > Greg Trasuk. > > > On Mar 23, 2016, at 12:58 AM, Gus Heck <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Folks, > > > > Many years ago I had a friend who spent some time telling me about "how > > cool" Jini was, but I never really got around to investigating it for > > myself at that time. Several years ago I was thinking of a project and > > remembered what he sad and read the Jini specs. They struck me as > something > > that should have been much more successful than they were. They really > look > > like they solve a lot of key problems, and I started playing a little bit > > and decided I probably wanted to use river. However in the way that side > > projects often do, it fell victim to work schedules etc. Lately, I've > been > > reviving the project and now I've got a collaborator and a very > rudimentary > > 0.1 release. The primary concern I've heard every time I mention Jini to > > anyone is the perception that it's old, done, yesterday, dying etc. > Having > > been lurking on this list for the last couple years I can say that > releases > > still happen and it's "Not Dead Yet" (in my best Monty Python voice) but > I > > also can't honestly say it's very lively either. Help me counter the nay > > sayers :) > > > > I've laid out my reasoning for why it fits with what I want to do in the > > link below and I'd like to invite anyone who actually uses Jini regularly > > to do any of the following: > > > > 1. Confirm that my concept/ideas/goals fit well with Jini > > 2. Tell me I'm crazy and I don't get it :) (nicely) > > 3. Say something somewhere in between 1 and 2... > > 4. Encourage me to use Jini > > 5. Discourage me from using Jini > > 6. Propose alternative technologies > > 7. *Help me build the **Jini parts of my project* :) > > > > I've started an issue in my Github repository to describe the way I plan > to > > use Jini and host discussion about pros/cons of this choice so if you're > > interested you can find it here: > https://github.com/nsoft/jesterj/issues/20 > > > > I also hope that if this project succeeds it might serve to re-publicize > > jini a bit and bring it back into the attention sphere of some of the > > larger open source software community... > > > > Best, > > > > Gus > > -- http://www.the111shift.com
