Re: "Can iTunes Accomplish What Jini Couldn't?"
"M. David Minnigerode" <[email protected]>
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If I'm not mistaken you don't have to install anything native if using JmDNS. It has both the multicast disco and service registration: http://jmdns.sourceforge.net/ dave On Jun 13, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Dan Creswell wrote: > Fabrizio Giudici wrote: >> >> On Jun 13, 2007, at 14:55 , Dan Creswell wrote: >> >>> It's also over here: >>> >>> http://patricklogan.blogspot.com/2007/06/can-itunes-accomplish- >>> what-jini-couldnt.html >>> >>> >>> And I've already responded, but there's no further discussion. >>> >>> Dan. >> >> Thank you for pointing it, now I know a bit more (I must admit my >> ignorance about Bonjour - and I'm a Mac user!) >> > > Well I'm no expert but I have looked a bit at this previously..... > >> Given that Bonjour is comparable only with a piece of Jini, that is >> discovery and lookup, and that Dan concludes "Bonjour+Jini not >> trivial >> but not impossible either", what do we want to do? Would you >> consider it >> an improvement? >> > > Okay well from where I stand, for it to be an improvement it would > need > to remove some barriers of difficulty in respect of using Jini. > > Bonjour requires the installation of a native daemon which could be > done > via an installer. Of course, on a Mac you'd have this out of the box > which I suspect is half the reason people like Bonjour, it's perceived > to require no effort basically cos a Mac has it already - be > interesting > to see how it's viewed on other platforms perhaps? > > Then it comes down to whether or not Bonjour can help with the usual > bootstrap suspects and I'm undecided on that. I'm certainly > curious to > see if we can use this ready-made infrastructure to replace some > bits of > Jini in some simplifying fashion. If nothing else Jini might be more > acceptable if it's deemed to run on top of some "web standards" like > DNS. However I'm not yet convinced that ultimately it'll all still > come > down to having a "properly configured network" (like Linux distro's > not > doing bad things in /etc/hosts files). > > Answering questions like the above will require some serious > study/thought.... > > Dan. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > Getting Started: http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started > Community Web Site: http://jini.org > jini-users Archive: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini- > users.html > Unsubscribing: email "signoff JINI-USERS" to > [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting Started: http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started Community Web Site: http://jini.org jini-users Archive: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini-users.html Unsubscribing: email "signoff JINI-USERS" to [email protected]