"Effortless Networking: A Look into JINI Technology and its Implementations"
Lindsay Techel 2001
Abstract
Sun MicroSystem's JINI technology is a step towards "effortless networking"; once a computer is connected to the network, instantly all accessible peripherals and applications residing on the network are visible, with no need for configuration. This thesis is a survey of JINI technology and the Remote Method Invocation (RMI) mechanism that allows objects running on one Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to invoke methods that are running on another JVM. An analysis of the effortless networking claim made by SUN for JINI is performed by creating a JINI network and developing RMI based applications that communicate within this network.