Jini Technology Starter Kit Installation v1.1

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The Jini Technology Starter Kit is made up of three components:

• The Jini Technology Core Platform (JCP) provides the core Jini technology infrastructure software. It includes the specification and corresponding interfaces and classes for lookup, distributed events, leasing, transactions, and discovery and join.
  
  
• The Jini Technology Extended Platform (JXP) provides the extended Jini technology infrastructure software. It includes the specifications and corresponding interfaces and classes for Jini technology-enabled utilities that are useful in writing new applications and services, and Jini technology-enabled services, including JavaSpaces^TM technology.
  
  
• The Jini Software Kit (JSK) provides: implementations of the lookup service and transaction manager service, specified in the Jini Technology Core Platform (JCP); implementations of utilities classes that are useful in writing new applications and services, specified in the Jini Technology Extended Platform (JXP); and Jini technology-enabled services, including JavaSpaces^TM technology, also specified in the Jini Technology Extended Platform.

The JCP, JXP, and JSK are distributed as the Jini Technology Starter Kit, which contains the source code, executable files, and complete documentation. This download is no longer available.

The Jini technology infrastructure software distribution bundle includes the binaries, source code, and support documentation. The downloadable (no longer available) file name is JINI-1.1-G-CS.zip, and extracts into the directory, jini1_1.

Create the directory where you would like the software to reside. For example:

• On a UNIX system:

  	% mkdir /files 
  	% cp downloaded-path/JINI-1.1-G-CS.zip /files
  	% cd /files
  	

• On a PC:

  	C:\> mkdir C:\files 
  	C:\> copy downloaded-path\JINI-1.1-G-CS.zip C:\files
  	C:\> cd C:\files
  	

Extract the zip file:

• Please take a look at the list below of platforms on which the Jini Technology Starter Kit has been tested. If you have already downloaded the Java 2 SDK, and you don't have access to an unzipping utility, you can use the jar command, included in the bin directory of the SDK, as long as it it reachable from your executable path.

  % jar xvf JINI-1.1-G-CS.zip 

• If you are on a UNIX system, you can use UNIX version of unzip.

  % unzip -d JINI-1.1-G-CS.zip 

• If you are on a PC system, you can use the unzipping tool of your choice.

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Examining the Jini technology distribution contents

Once you've unzipped the JINI-1.1-G-CS.zip file, you should have the following items in addition to the zip file itself:

index.html
The starting page for all documentation

doc
The directory that contains API documentation, supporting documentation for the examples, this installation file, license files, and release notes

example
The directory that contains supporting files for running the example code

lib
The directory where the JAR files are located

policy
The directory that contains policy file templates for the Jini technology-enabled services included with the starter kit

source
The directory where the source code for the binary classes is located

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Platforms on which the Jini Technology Starter Kit has been tested

While you may use another platform configuration, if you encounter problems, you should try one of these:

Reference Implementation:

Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition, v 1.2.2_006 Solaris Reference Implementation on the latest FCS versions of Solaris 2.6, Solaris 2.7, and Solaris 8 on Sparc.

Production Releases:

Java 2 SDK Standard Edition, v 1.2.2_05a Solaris Production release on the latest FCS versions of Solaris 2.6, Solaris 2.7, and Solaris 8 on Sparc and Solaris 8 on X86.

Java 2 SDK Standard Edition, v 1.2.2_006 Windows 95/98/2000/NT Production Release on Windows 2000 (2nd Edition) and NT 4.0 (SP6).

Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) v 1.3.0 Production Release for Win95/98/2000/NT on Windows 2000 (2nd Edition) and NT 4.0 (SP6).

Java 2 SDK Standard Edition, v 1.3.0 Solaris Production on the latest FCS version of Solaris 2.6, Solaris 2.7, and Solaris 8 on Sparc and Solaris 8 on X86.

All of these Java 2 SDK releases are available from http://java.sun.com/j2se/

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