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Jini Technology Keeps Orbitz Moving: Adaptive System Architecture Is Key to Company's Growth and Success

Orbitz was formed by leading U.S. airlines to access the rapidly growing online travel industry, to address consumers' need for an unbiased, comprehensive display of fares and rates in a single location, and to establish a lower-cost distribution channel for suppliers. As a low-cost provider in an industry that has...

Tags: System Architecture, Jini, Orbitz, Jini Technology, Java, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

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A Java-Based Programming Language Support of Location Management in Pervasive Systems

This paper presents an effort towards incorporating programming language support for pervasive systems development activities through extending on an already existing and stable programming language, namely Java. Pervasive systems research indicated the need for five main cornerstone features in support for conducting efficient pervasive systems development activities, namely programming language...

Tags: Java, Programming Language, Programming, Systems Development Activity, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-06-01

Smarter homes with an Amigo

I'm sure that some of you remember Jini, an initiative launched in 1998 by Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems. This software was supposed to turn all the devices we use into 'network citizens,' as Joy said. It never really worked. And even if the electronic devices we own are...

Tags: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Interoperability, Device, Network, Middleware, Information And Communication Technology, Amigo, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Networking, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-12-01

Sun's JavaFX = Microsoft Silverlight (in theory, at least)

Sun's JavaFX = Microsoft Silverlight (in theory, at least)Java rules the known universeJava absolutely dominates the software development market. Java has been and continues to be a raging success. All of this prior to Java being open-sourced. Now that Java is OSS, we'll see it playing an...

Tags: Programming languages, Java 6, Java horse, theory, C#, Java, JavaFX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-05-08

Q&A with Tim Bray

In the months and weeks leading up to Mondays announcement there was considerable speculation about which open source license Sun would choose for Java. When I learned it would be GPL, I had a number of concerns and questions about what this would mean for developers of both free and...

Tags: General, Java, Licenses, Community, Programming, Sun

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Here Jini, Here Jini, Jini, jini

Here Jini, Here Jini, Jini, jiniI was under the impressionthat Jini was just another way of doing device drivers. If what you say is true, then Jini is worse than .NET in being able to explain what it is.Price+perf is what matters, not number of coresCertainly mult-core has been around...

Tags: Java, Microsoft Corp., Jini, MAJC

Discussion threads 2006-03-23

Here Jini, Here Jini, Jini, jini

Right now the MulticoreExpo that's been going on at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California is wrapping up. ARM's John Goodacre, chair of EEMBC Multiprocessing benchmark group, was planning to present a session entitled A technical insight into the EEMBC MP benchmarks that I would have loved to attend....

Tags: Java, Jini, Jini system

Blog posts 2006-03-23

Sun releases Jini with open-source license

Sun releases Jini with open-source licenseI always thought this technology had promise. A device that could deliverit's own driver, and be autodetected. Hopefully this will advance the uses. I would like to see JINI enabled printers for instance.

Tags: Java, Jini, open-source license, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source

Discussion threads 2005-10-19

Jini, meet RFID, meet wish list

Jini, meet RFID, meet wish listMicrosoft's PC coding .... elaborate please"JAVA, which started out as a virtualization of the hardware in TV set top boxes and became the business critical technology it is now mainly in response to Microsoft's PC coding habits" Could somebody actually tell me...

Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, RFID, Windows sale, Jini, Microsoft Corp., Java

Discussion threads 2005-07-06

Jini, meet RFID, meet wish list

In the human world people move around, interact, and move on. The interaction protocols: on the surface language, commonalities, and purpose, aren't well understood but the interactions work. You and I could meet tomorrow, exchange some information, and move on with both of us marginally enriched by the experience. Eventually...

Tags: RFID, XML, JXTA

Blog posts 2005-07-06

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services: The Road to Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)

Most enterprises have made extensive investments in system resources over the course of many years. Such enterprises have an enormous amount of data stored in legacy Enterprise Information Systems EIS, so it's not practical to discard existing systems. It's more cost-effective to evolve and enhance EIS. But how can this...

Tags: Web, EAI, Web Service, SOA, Enterprise Application, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, UDDI, Middleware, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing

White papers 2005-04-01

Jini wishes may finally come true

Jini wishes may finally come trueThis sounds likea complete waste of time.or a case of"Will it be yet another example where industry clout and marketing savvy pull off a transformation that the original technology innovator could not?"the monopoly that controls the brower controls web services - how knows

Tags: Java, Jini

Discussion threads 2004-03-07