(2004-04-15) De Hora Jxta Vs Jini

Bill De Hora is wondering about JXTA vs Jini. There seems to be trade off between the homogenity of Java-oriented Jini and the (potential) ubiquity of protocol-oriented JXTA. Also, I find Jini to be somewhat better specified than JXTA and with a better programming model in JavaSpaces. But for the kinds of things I'm interested in, choosing Jini means choosing Java over protocols - that's a big ask. My experience is that things defined in terms of protocols trump things defined in terms of programming languages. Radovan Janecek suggests Globus as preferable to both.