1. Overview
The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
—Mark Twain
Jini technology is a simple infrastructure for providing services in a network, and for creating spontaneous interactions between programs that use these services. Services can join or leave the network in a robust fashion, and clients can rely upon the availability of visible services, or at least upon clear failure conditions. When you interact with a service, you do so through a Java object provided by that service. This object is downloaded into your program so that you can talk to the service even if you have never seen its kind before—the downloaded object knows how to do the talking. ...
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