HAVE JINI, WILL TRAVEL

摘要

Jini was still being marketed as a networking technology for consumer appliances such as DVD players and televisions when startup Orbitz Inc. made the rather bold decision to build its business on the fledgling Java-based specification. Forged in 2000 by five airlines, Chicago-based Orbitz had a blank technology slate when it elected to look beyond Sun Microsystems Inc.'s consumer hardware pitch and explore Jini's potential as a distributed computing framework for its online travel services. Orbitz architects knew that few companies were using Jini, but they were comforted to learn that one, Raytheon Co., was exploring the technology for systems on U.S. Navy destroyers.