Jini Technology Core Platform Specification

The Jini Technology Core Platform Specifications defines A system of Jini™ technology-enabled services and/or devices is a Java™ technology-centered, distributed system designed for simplicity, flexibility, and federation. The Jini architecture provides mechanisms for machines or programs to enter into a federation where each machine or program offers resources to other members of the federation and uses resources as needed. The design of the Jini architecture exploits the ability to move Java programming language code from machine to machine and unifies, under the notion of a service, everything from the user of a system of Jini technology-enabled services and/or devices, to the software available on the machines, to the hardware components of the machines themselves.