The Jini Release

• Download page for the current Jini release (at the JDC):

  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/products/jini

• Download page for J2SE Platform, on which Jini runs

  http://java.sun.com/j2se/

• List of J2SE Platform implementations upon which the Jini release has been tested:

  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/products/jini/tested.html

• Download page for all of the Jini specifications:

  http://www.sun.com/jini/specs/

• The Jini Bug Database (at the JDC):

  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/restricted/jinisite/bugs/index.html

• Jini Technology Site, which provides definitions of certain terms found in the Sun Community Source License for Jini:

  http://www.sun.com/jini/jini_technology.html

Jini Books, Chapters, and Tutorials

• An annotated list of all Jini and JavaSpaces books:

  http://www.artima.com/jini/booklist.html

• Jan Newmarch's online Jini tutorial:

  http://pandonia.canberra.edu.au/java/jini/tutorial/Jini.xml

• A chapter from Jini in a Nutshell: Basic Jini Programming

  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jininut/chapter/ch04.html

Jini Mailing Lists

• To subscribe to the JINI-USERS mailing list:
     Send e-mail to: listserv@java.sun.com
     In the body of the message, type: subscribe jini-users
  
  
• JINI-USERS mailing list archives:

  http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/jini-users.html

• Open forum mailing lists at jini.org:

  http://www.jini.org/openforum.html

Jini FAQs

• A FAQ for the JINI-USERS mailing list:

  http://www.artima.com/jini/faq.html

• The official Jini FAQ from Sun:

  http://www.sun.com/jini/faqs/

• JGuru Jini FAQ:

  http://www.jguru.com/faq/Jini

• FAQ about RMI and Object Serialization:

  http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/rmi/faq.html

Jini Web Sites

• The Jini Community, the central site for signers of the Jini Sun Community Source Licence to interact:

  http://www.jini.org

• The main Jini page at Sun:

  http://www.sun.com/jini/

• Cees de Groot's Jini WikiWeb:

  http://www.cdegroot.com/cgi-bin/jini

• Jini Planet, by Kieth Edwards, the author of Core Jini:

  http://www.kedwards.com/jini/index.html

• A very nice Directory of Jini Resources on the Net:

  http://www.litefaden.com/sv/jd/

• Ein Deutschsprachiges Jini Forum, where you can learn about Jini and practice your German:

  http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/de-jini-users/

• Just in case you landed here while lost in cyberspace, why, this very web site, Jini Corner:

  http://www.artima.com/jini

Jini Articles and Lecture Notes

• "The End of Protocols," a great article by Jim Waldo:

  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/jini/protocols.html

• Jiniology, a series of articles about Jini and JavaSpaces:

  http://www.artima.com/jiniology/index.html

• "Jini in the Box," the cover story for November 1999 issue of Embedded Systems:

  http://www.assuredtech.com/papers/jini/embedded.pdf

• A page of links to all kinds of news and technical articles about Jini:

  http://www.sun.com/jini/news/artcliprev.html

• Online lecture notes for a course about RMI and Jini:

  http://www.eli.sdsu.edu/courses/spring99/cs696/notes/index.html

• An introduction to using Jini with EmbeddedJava, including a code example (from Dr. Dobb's Journal):

  http://www.ddj.com/articles/1999/9907/9907a/9907a.htm

• "One Huge Computer" (The Wired interview with Bill Joy.)

  http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.08/jini.html

• "One Huge Computer" Wired Magazine's August 1998 feature article on Jini, including an interview with Bill Joy.

  Feature article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.08/jini.html
  Joy interview sidebar: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.08/joy.html

• "Case Study: Sun Microsystem's Jini," by Cooper Interactive Design (when you get there, click on Sun Microsystems Jini)

  Feature article: http://www.cooper.com/cases.html

• A technical introduction to Jini:

  http://java.sun.com/events/jbe/98/features/jini.html

• An article describing scenarios showing how Jini might be used in the real world:

  http://java.sun.com/features/1999/01/jini_scenario.html

• A series of articles about Jini written by Benoit Marchal:

  http://www.javacats.com/US/

Technical Papers related to Jini

• "A Note on Distributed Computing" by Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, and Sam Kendall (Reveals the philosophy behind Jini's architecture.)

  http://www.sun.com/research/techrep/1994/abstract-29.html

• "Events in an RPC Based Distribution System" by Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath, Geoff Wyant, and Samuel C. Kendall

  http://www.sun.com/research/techrep/1995/abstract-47.html

• "Simple Activation for Distributed Objects" by Ann Wollrath, Geoff Wyant, and Jim Waldo

  http://www.sun.com/research/techrep/1995/abstract-46.html

Jini Code Examples

• Brian Murphy created some beginner examples, which you can retrieve at:

  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/restricted/jini1_1/jini-examples.html

• "The Nuts and Bolts of Compiling and Running JavaSpaces Programs" by Susanne Hupfer:

  http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/jini/javaspaces/

• Eran Davidov posted some example code to JINI-USERS, and Ken Arnold made some modifications to get the code to run on UNIX. Eran then updated the code to work with JDK FCS 1.2. This revised version can be downloaded from:

  http://www.artima.com/jini/resources/timeservice.html

• Oki's Jini Service Finder (the code is available at jini.org):

  http://www.okilab.com/jini/finder/

• A Jini Example, including a tutorial and code:

  http://www.cswl.com/whiteppr/tutorials/jini.html

If you know of a good resource for Jini developers that you think would make a nice addition to this list, please e-mail Bill Venners.