JINI clone

Tue Oct 31 10:03:00 GMT 2000

Alexandre Petit-Bianco wrote:
 >
 > Bill Petheram writes:
 >
 > > I have written a partial implementation of JINI taken from the
 > > specification.
 >
 > Great. I heard that the legal aspect surrounding JINI were quite
 > discouraging as far as writing a JINI clone -- I haven't looked at
 > these legal aspects yet. What's your opinion?
As I understand it Sun has IP over the JINI implementation. By 
implementing to the spec I may have infringed their IP, supposedly 
because they have patented some of the implementation techniques, which 
you have to use. However my implementation does not conform strictly to 
the spec as I wrote it to play with JINI ideas.
 >
 > > I am happy to assign the copyright. The code works with
 > > limitations. It is NOT compatible with Suns JINI. A similar
 > > comparison is Ninja RMI to Suns RMI.
 >
 > Is Ninja RMI what you were relying on to build this partial JINI?
 > We unfortunately don't have a RMI yet.
 >
 > ./A
I have used RMI using JDK1.2. I understood kaffe has an RMI 
implementation. Their would be little problem converting to Ninja RMI.
I don't have a lot of time right now and am reluctant to let the code go 
to waste.
thanks
bill
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