Jini

Well I discovered Jini.org in th epast few days and I must say it is an interesting idea with a huge amount of potential. I ran across it quite accidentally while browsing some of Sun Microsystems employee blogs (lots of good reading there BTW) and came across this one ladys blog by the name of Mary. She has an intersting bit on this jini thing. I almost missed it because the logo looks so much like Java's. Wel it turns out there is a reason for that, the two are related. Jini is a technology that I wish we had in greater prevalenence already. While I admit it could have some implications it is neat. Sort of like Bluetooth but not exaclty. Imagine that your network was setup and everything in the network was accessable by everything else. You can store info on other Hard drives on the network without necessarily putting it on your own and when a device like a new scanner or other jini enabled device came into proximity with the network it would be recognized and accessable by the network. The better explaination they gave was the link between the coffe pot and the alarm clock. Coffee being my lifeblood in the morning I couldn't pass up reading that. You decide you want to wake up an hour earlier i the morning so you decide to program the alarm an hour earlier but at the same time you are alos resetting the coffe maker! Oh my lazy bones just fell in love with that idea. I can't wait for that one. The idea, as you log your schedule into your computer everyday the ubiquious computing environment will seamlessly intergrate many functions to optimize your time. SO much is done from the keyboard today it's unreal. On demand movies are big now too. I'm rebeling agianst it so far because I admit I have a tv near my terminal so I can run and blog and surf all at the same time. Its a geek thing. Anyway check out jini.org if you have the chance. The tool kit is open source. Enjoy.