Treffer: Jini builds foundation for SOA.

The article reports on the availability of the Jini Technology Starter Kit, best known as a network communications technology, under the Apache License 2.0. The technology is also a service-oriented architecture with advanced capabilities and involves some form of asynchronous messaging or the calling of functions in applications on remote systems. The core concept is service, a Java interface that defines a contract between a service consumer and a service provider. One of the most powerful features of the technology is that it can be securely downloaded from another computer that supplies the implementation of service proxy.