an overview of JXTA. Gene Kan gave an overview of JXTA. He admits that Jini is dead; Java was holding it down like a weight. The edges of the universe are growing faster than the center but inequality of load is growing, not shrinking. Porn is too hard to find on the Internet today. They're using the Apache license; screw Richard Stallman. He touts that JXTA isn't IP-only, which is a dubious advantage IMO. [Hack the Planet]

I sort of liked Jini (I own enough bloody books on the subject), but it was one of those things that was really hampered by Java's more bondage-and-discipline tendencies. It was also a complete bastard to get an environment running, but from what I've seen, so's JXTA.