A Survey on Jini Technology

Any network made of services (like application, database, servers, storage, etc.) and clients of these services can be added, removed or maintained from the network and the new clients can search for existing services. Jini technology is useful for delivering the services in a network and provides interaction between the programs that use these services despite of their hardware or software implementation. A network becomes more dynamic due to Jini technology. Jini technology provides mechanism/methods for devices through which we can connect and disconnect physical devices from network without making any configuration [4]. Jini is also called “Apache River. The problems of distributed computing can be addressed by using a set of interfaces and protocols. Jini can be builds up on the Java 2 Platforms. When one or more devices get deleted from the federations the Jini enables self-healing. Jini is useful for both hardware as well as software services. Jini technology is not a Web service. It can communicate with, or be used to build, Web services [3]. Jini technology was developed to address the problems that should be solved before generic Web services can be transformed into the highly personalized, cross-network, intelligent services that future systems will provide. [9].