Java Posse #082 - Interview with Van Simmons on JINI and Compute Cycles, Part 1

Interview with Van Simmons about JINI and ComputeCyclesFully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com We now have a google group for the Java Posse at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Van is the leader of the ComputeCycles project. ComputeCycles is an open-source project which uses Jini, Glassfish and Groovy to build a secure, scalable, "on-the-fly" compute grid. In this interview he talks about the role Jini plays in that effort and why it's used at the core of the ComputeCycles project.

• ComputeCycles project homepage
• https://computecycles.dev.java.net/Welcome.html
• ComputeCycles Java One 2006 Presentation
• http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/2006/coolstuff/TS-3714.html
• JINI home page
• http://www.jini.org/wiki/Main_Page
• Getting started with JINI
• http://www.jini.org/wiki/Category:Getting_Started
• http://jini.dev.java.net
• JVM Security and Classloaders Summary Paper
• http://research.sun.com/techrep/ 2006/smli_tr-2006-149.pdf
• Webinar on achieving Protocol Independence with JINI/JERI
• http://www.jini.org/wiki/Webinar_2
• Linda/Tuplespaces link
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/gelernter_qa.html
• A Note on Distributed Computing Whitepaper - Kendall, Waldo, Wollrath and Wyant
• http://research.sun.com/techrep/ 1994/abstract-29.html
• The Eight (yes Eight, not Seven, but in fact some people claim there are now Eleven) Fallacies of Distributed Computing
• http://weblogs.java.net/jag/Fallacies.html

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