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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smith, L.
• Roe, C.
• Knudsen, K.S.

Titel

A Jini/sup TM/ lookup service for resource-constrained devices

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings 2002 IEEE 4th International Workshop on Networked Appliances (Cat. No.02EX525), 2002, p.135-144

Ort / Verlag

IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Link zum Volltext

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Quelle

IEEE Electronic Library (IEL)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Almost by definition, appliances are useful, cost-effective devices or tools. This holds true for "smart" appliances as well-they must provide a reasonable level of computational and communications capability and be interoperable with other devices in their environment. The issues around interoperability are best solved via standards-based connectivity and communications protocols, such as Jini/sup TM,/ OSGi, UPnP, and others. However, in the case of Jini/sup TM/, the static and runtime storage requirements of typical implementations are too great to be considered for the embedded systems in appliances. PsiNaptic has developed a version of Jini/sup TM/ that is compliant with the Jini specification and requires an order of magnitude less storage than the reference implementation from Sun Microsystems Inc. This article provides a review of Jini/sup TM/ followed by a detailed discussion of PsiNaptic's implementation concentrating on the lookup, discovery, and join protocols. A simple demonstration using an 8051-based Java controller is shown.