FW: O'Reilly Releases "Jini in a Nutshell"

Brandon Gohsman brandon at squareonedesign.com
Mon Mar 20 08:17:28 CST 2000


Jini anyone?

-----Original Message-----
From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo at oreilly.com]
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 6:24 PM
To: brandon at squareonedesign.com
Subject: O'Reilly Releases "Jini in a Nutshell"


For immediate release
For free review copy contact: 
Denise Olliffe (707) 829-0515 ext 339 or deniseo at oreilly.com


WILL JINI BE the TECHNOLOGY BEHIND "SMART" TOASTER?


Will Jini radically alter our use of computer networks? Countless
developers think so. Jini may turn out to be one of the technologies
that allow for truly location-independent computing. Jini may also be
the power behind "smart" appliances and gadgets. Sun is betting that
when your fridge talks to your dishwasher, Jini will be what makes that
conversation happen. Want to dump photos from a friend's digital camera
onto your Palmpilot, and from there beam them to a printer? Jini could
be the answer.

Jini is a simple set of Java classes and services that allows devices
(i.e., printers, storage devices, speakers) and services (i.e.,
printing) to seamlessly interact with each other without device driver.
"Right now, we have lots of text-driven services on a big
network--HTML, XML, whatever--on the Internet. That's great," says
Scott Oakes, co-author of the just-released "Jini in a Nutshell"
(O'Reilly, $29.95), "but it's only a first step. In the future, we can
have lots of new services targeted towards any device; these services
can come and go, as can the clients. Jini is what can make this
possible."

"As more and more devices are capable of interacting and being deployed
in new, dynamic environments, programmers of the services for those
devices need a computing platform that can handle these impromptu
communities in a robust manner. And developers need a simple way to
write and deploy these services," says Oakes.  "Jini is addresses some
fundamental needs within distributed computing,"

"Jini in a Nutshell" covers everything an experienced Java programmer
needs to know about Jini, including tutorial chapters to get you up to
speed quickly and reference chapters that analyze and explain every
Java package related to Jini.

Chapter 4, Basic Jini Programming, is available online free at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jininut/chapter/ch04.html

For more information about the book, including Table of Contents,
index, author bios, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jininut/noframes.html


The Sun Jini page can be found at:
http://www.sun.com/jini/


For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/1565927591.jpg


Jini in a Nutshell
By Scott Oaks & Henry Wong
1st edition March 2000
1-56592-759-1, 400 pages, $24.95 
order at oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
http://www.oreilly.com




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