Re: "Can iTunes Accomplish What Jini Couldn't?"
Dan Creswell <[email protected]>
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M. David Minnigerode wrote: > 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/ > Ah cool - didn't know about that. One less problem to worry about. Cheers, Dan. > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]