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I am curious why Jini gets no mention in a book on distributed computing. Jini was not commercially successful, but some of the concepts were quite interesting

I am curious why Jini gets no mention in a book on distributed computing. Jini was not commercially successful, but some of the concepts were quite interesting: mobile code, downloadable client proxies, leasing, look-up by interface, etc. "The end of protocols" is a short but good read: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~keith/classes/ubicomplexity/pdfs/infra/waldo-end-of-proto.pdf http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~keith/classes/ubicomplexity/pdfs/i...

justin66 12y ago
It was never popular and has been a dead technology for over a decade. (I can only go by mentions in publications. For all I know it has millions of deployments in some gadget or another. I suspect not.)
- seanmcdirmid 12y ago
  Not entirely true; many of the concepts from Linda (Jini/Javaspaces) are around in the form of KV stores.
  - justin66 12y ago
    Could you elaborate on that? I'm pretty sure you mean something more sophisticated than a key-value store, which is about as old and dead simple a concept as we have.
    - seanmcdirmid 12y ago
      No, I mean, tuple spaces were always quite simple as well as a simplification, and the use of KV stores in many distributed computing tasks continued that trend under another less soiled name.