4. The Rest of This Book

A good question is never answered.

It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.

—John Ciardi

By now you should have an overview of how the Jini technology works and what it takes to write a client and service. The rest of this book contains the specifications of the Jini architecture. Each specification is prefaced by a short paragraph describing where it fits into the architecture. After the specifications you will find a glossary that defines terms used in the specifications. Appendix A is a reprint of “A Note on Distributed Computing,” whose thinking undergirds the Jini architecture. Appendix B contains the full code for ...

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