I have just received last friday my new server, basically an Xserve G5 [en] with two 2.3Ghz processors and 2Gb of RAM. This configuration cost me around 6200 € which is quite expansive but if you consider you have about 1000 € of software, about 960 € of warranty for 3 years and 1030 € of […]
A new version of Blitz [en] is available. This new version includes the updated RIO configuration file [en] I wrote, and also fixes the issues I had with ServiceUI [en].
A new version [en] of RIO [en] has been released. A fresh FAQ [en] has also been published.
RIO [en] is bundled with some few services such as the ones in the Jini [en] reference implementation. But instead of using Outrigger (the JavaSpace implementation from the RI), I wanted to use Blitz [en].
Blitz [en] is in fact distributed with a sample configuration file for RIO [en], but unfortunately this configuration was not setting up ServiceUI [en] and not giving […]
A friend of mine (who is also an ex-coworker) referred me to a Jini [en] project called HACore [en]. HACore [en] seems to provide pretty much the same goals and kind of features of RIO [en]. Its documentation is really good, providing specifications [en], design considerations [en] and of course the API documentation [en].
The few drawbacks I can quickly find […]
A new article [en] about RIO [en] has been released. For those who may not know it, RIO [en] is a kind of Jini [en] service container providing really neat features. I’ll speak more about RIO [en] and Jini [en] in a few days…