> The other stuff like JNI (a registry for RPC endpoints) and java rmi itself were baked into the standard libraries from the beginning as well. But the envisio

> The other stuff like JNI (a registry for RPC endpoints) and java rmi itself were baked into the standard libraries from the beginning as well. But the envisioned "software agents running on arbitrary machines on the network" never took off, seems kind of foolhardy in hindsight, that anyone would think that's a good idea. Well, we’re back to it with webassembly now. Everything old is new again.