Java Dynamic Networking with Jini Technology, Part 1

ini technology is an open architecture that enables Java developers to build distributed systems that are highly adaptive to change. As the complexities associated with building and managing service-based systems become clearer, more and more developers are relying on Jini technology's dynamic networking capabilities and service-oriented architecture to build distributed systems today.

Jini technology introduced the concept of dynamic networking, a very simple, yet unique networking approach. The fundamental difference between dynamic networking and traditional networking is one of perspective. If you build your system with the assumption that the environment it will run in is dynamic, and therefore actively consider that the system will need to detect and respond to changes in its runtime environment, then you are working in a dynamic networking mindset. If you don't think about this at all as you design and code your system, then you're not working in a dynamic networking mindset. Today's deployment environments are increasingly dynamic, and in these environments systems that are built to respond to change both flexibly and automatically often perform better than their static counterparts, which rely largely on human intervention to deal with change.