Waldo went on to be the chief architect of Jini at Sun, which IMO is a very elegant solution to the problems of distributed computing. Unfortunately Jini never

Waldo went on to be the chief architect of Jini at Sun, which IMO is a very elegant solution to the problems of distributed computing. Unfortunately Jini never found success in the real world, but there are a lit of great ideas contained within, like resource leasing, tuplespaces, and interface-based proxying. Here’s a later interview with Waldo that’s a bit of a retrospective [0]. With 20 years passed since then, I don’t think we have yet found a satisfactory approach to distributed systems, so maybe it’s time to revisit these older ones. 0. https://www.artima.com/articles/jim-waldo-on-distributed-computing#part10 https://www.artima.com/articles/jim-waldo-on-distributed-com...