Is JINI at all active anymore?

Question

Everyone I talk to who knows (knew) about it claims it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Why did it fail? Or, if it didn't fail, who's using it now?

Answer 1

Check out GigaSpaces. It's a quite successful Jini/Javaspaces implementation.

I think Jini has a great model, but it is stuck with Java. Web-services is more appealing because it works with standarized protocols, even though Jini service discovery is more natural.

Answer 2

Things have definitely quited down for the idea. Which is strange since you'd think its goals are even more relevant now.

http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:News

Answer 3

old question, but JINI was given to Apache and became Apache River project. However, that project is now retired.