Jini and JavaSpaces Application Development (Kaleidoscope)

By Robert Flenner

Jini and JavaSpaces Application Development demonstrates real-world usage and application of the Jini technology. Specifically the book presents and builds on the concept of a "virtual development... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672322587
• ISBN13: 9780672322587
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Good so far - some problems though

I just bought this book and am most of the way through Chap 3. I am would like to point out some things about the book so far: - The book is very current. It compares Jini and RMi etc.. to new technologies such as JXTA, .Net, and Web services. - The author is very intelligent!! He has an excellent grasp of the role of distributed object systems and is not just repeating hype. He said that (paraphrase) "XML is a time-bomb becuase its not polymorpic enough, just describing the data is not powerful enough". Wow, good stuff. - He presents the RMI stuff the best Ive seen but in the process gets ahead of himself. His code is not 100% complete. By this I mean he doesnt include all the extra stuff like package statements and he refers to scripts like compile.bat that start these services that are not printed or downloadable or included. In the book it refers to [URL] to get the code for the book and extra files and there are not links and I cant hack the path or find them.. So, I am hacking together some scripts and packaging this jar files the old fashioned way. - Also, Mr. Flenner is VERY good about actually describing all the services that are part of the Sun GUI StartService tool. Now, the reader can understand what all these services are such as: mahalo, norm, reggie, mercury, etc.. I'll write more later as I read more though the book..