Yes quite interesting, there also is an article in the August Wired regarding this, and an interview (also available on wired.com somewhere) with Bill Joy.
Dwayne wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm suprised no one in any of these fora have mentioned this yet.
> Their webpage is located at:
>
> http://java.sun.com/products/jini/
>
> Basically, it appears to be a 48k upgrade to the java language
> which permits widespread distributed computing. If it is real, it
> may well turn out to be pretty huge.
>
> Dwayne
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