From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Skip Tavakkolian" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: [9fans] Article in the Economist about Bill Joy Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:03:44 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: fae3ff58-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Sep 21st issue of The Economist has a technology article about Bill Joy and the latest in the alphabet soup that starts with J, namely JXTA. Since it was the second time I heard about JXTA, I decided to read up on it. Maybe I'm oversimplifying or maybe I'm sleepy, but it seems that Sun has finally abandoned the CORBA/DCOM notions of object discovery/brokering for distributed systems (at least ad-hoc P2P variety) and coming around a set of protocols for some basic services. In all sincerity, I want to know what is revolutionary about JXTA? If you are wondering how this relates to Plan9, anything that claims to be the panacea for distributed computing needs to get compared to Plan9, which we all know IS ☺