Build­ing a SOA with JINI

I have been wait­ing for ages to see web ser­vices get ready for SOA. Re­cent­ly, hint­ed by a cus­tomer, I (re)dis­cov­ered JINI. What that mo­ment was like? Well, look­ing at JINI (in com­bi­na­tion with JavaS­paces) I saw a dy­nam­ic lookup plat­form based on in­ter­faces (read: ca­pa­bil­i­ties - not names) and with scal­a­bil­i­ty, self-heal­ing char­ac­ter­is­tics and the per­for­mance of RMI. Java­spaces even adds the best of mes­sag­ing and asyn­chrony. It sounds too good to be true.

To be con­tin­ued...