Monday, February 26, 2007

Building a SOA with JINI

I have been waiting for ages to see web services get ready for SOA. Recently, hinted by a customer, I (re)discovered JINI. What that moment was like? Well, looking at JINI (in combination with JavaSpaces) I saw a dynamic lookup platform based on interfaces (read: capabilities - not names) and with scalability, self-healing characteristics and the performance of RMI. Javaspaces even adds the best of messaging and asynchrony. It sounds too good to be true.

To be continued...