By Michael Deleo. This article describes a demonstration featuring 3Com Palm Pilots, Lego Mindstorm miniature tanks, and Jini technology presented at this year's JavaOne Developer Conference. This article explores some of the challenges solved by the demonstration developers with Jini technology and the K Virtual Machine (KVM).

Technical report on why network transparency is not the way to go in distributed applications, by Jim Waldo et al. [Sun Labs]

Article by Frank Jennings.

By George Lawton. Researchers at UCLA develop smart-space architecture.

The latest RMI framework, Jini Extensible Remote Invocation (JERI), introduced as part of the Jini 2.0 release, features a powerful, highly configurable RMI security mechanism. This article presents an extensible RMI overview and demonstrates JERI's configuration features. By Frank Sommers.

Interesting visionary article on Jini, JavaSpaces for collaborative workplaces.[O'Reilly]

Bill Joy on Java and Jini. Audio, video and HTML versions.

By Daniel H. Steinberg.

By Hinkmond Wong. Networking consumer devices.

Nuclear medicine department embraces Jini [Javasoft]

Academic research paper on jini security.

By Mark Driver, Gartner Analyst. Transformational leaps in network computing never occur at blink-of-an-eye speeds. The much-ballyhooed Java Jini software is a case in point.

By Scott Oaks, Henry Wong.

Article on Bill Joy's (chief architect at Sun) vision of Jini [Wired magazine].

By Josh Galban. Did you ever wish for a world where all your electronic devices were linked together and accessible by remote control? Imagine it.

Article by Edward J. Correia. Claims dynamic network architecture not just for devices, suitable for discovery, delivery.

By Stephen Shankland. Sun Microsystems is scaling back its Jini software intended to network everything from kitchen appliances to cell phones, adding a stripped-down version more likely to work on today's gadgets.

Bidding to get in front of Microsoft in the race to create a ubiquitous computing platform, the firm announces it signed up some big players to implement its new technology. [Wired News]

By Frank Sommers. Ensure the quality of Web services in the age of calm computing.

Article by Jim Waldo, from Communications of the ACM Volume 42, Issue 7.

Workshop at OOPSLA 2000. This workshop attempt to identify the patterns and pattern language embodied by Jini Technology.

Introductory overview of Jini and its alternatives [JavaWorld].

By Rawn Shah. Jini and JavaSpaces bring true distributed computing to Java.

By James Niccolai. Sun Microsystems is dusting off its Jini networking technology and promoting it as a tool that can be used to help deliver Web services. But while some analysts hold the technology in high regard, others question its role beyond a few niche markets.