In the future, the industry will be motivated to develop dependable methods of software-to-software interaction on the network, where unreliable components will be eliminated automatically, resulting in the survival of the fittest services. This article is the first in a four-part series on designing and deploying highly dependable Jini services.
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http://www.artima.com/jini/jiniology/surv1.html