Jini Network Technology

I have been working with Jini Network Technology since its inception in 1999, first at Xerox Corporation, then at RIT. I was one of the original members of the Jini Community Technical Oversight Committee, serving from 2000 to 2003. For further information about Jini Network Technology and the Jini Community, see the jini.org web site.

• Jini Print Service API -- I led the Jini Printing Working Group (JPWG) which developed a draft specification for the Jini Print Service API, intended to be the standard service interface for a printing service in a Jini federation. The Jini Print Service API was published in draft form, but to my knowledge was never standardized by the Jini Community and was never implemented in any commercially available printer. However, the JPWG's effort was not entirely fruitless. Some of the work I did for the JPWG, notably the printing attribute classes, was incorporated into the Java Print Service API released as package javax.print in the standard Java platform.
   
  Unfortunately, the web site containing the JPWG's archives seems to have disappeared. Here is a ZIP file containing the Jini Print Service API Draft Standard Version 1.0 dated 23-May-2000. Java source code is stored under the directory lib/ and Javadoc documentation and tutorial information under the directory doc/.
   
  JiniPrintServiceApi20000523.zip (2,486,201 bytes)
   
• Poor Man’s Remote Method Invocation -- PMRMI was an experiment in running Jini Network Technology in small places, meaning Java devices that lack the Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE). This includes Java 2 Micro Edition Connected Limited Device Configuration (J2ME CLDC) devices as well as devices running JDK 1.1. Writing PMRMI convinced me that running a Jini-like infrastructure on small mobile wireless devices was doable, which led to the Anhinga Project.

Alan Kaminsky • Department of Computer Science • Rochester Institute of Technology • 4486 + 2220 = 6706

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