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Bill Venners: Those sound like the things you need to think about when you design the way a human interacts with a car or a power plant. You want to make common things simple. And you want to make it hard for people to make mistakes.

Ken Arnold: Sure. Because people will make mistakes. The one thing you are absolutely certain of is they will make mistakes. It doesn't matter how well you train them. Even if they work in the office next to you, even if they are you six months from now, people make mistakes.

Resources

The Jini Community, the central site for signers of the Jini Sun Community Source License to interact:
http://www.jini.org

Download JavaSpaces from:
http://java.sun.com/products/javaspaces/

Design objects for people, not for computers:
http://www.artima.com/apidesign/object.html

Make Room for JavaSpaces, Part I - An introduction to JavaSpaces, a simple and powerful distributed programming tool:
http://www.artima.com/jini/jiniology/js1.html

Make Room for JavaSpaces, Part II - Build a compute server with JavaSpaces, Jini's coordination service:
http://www.artima.com/jini/jiniology/js2.html

Make Room for JavaSpaces, Part III - Coordinate your Jini applications with JavaSpaces:
http://www.artima.com/jini/jiniology/js3.html

Make Room for JavaSpaces, Part IV - Explore Jini transactions with JavaSpaces:
http://www.artima.com/jini/jiniology/js4.html

Make Room for JavaSpaces, Part V - Make your compute server robust and scalable with Jini and JavaSpaces:
http://www.artima.com/jini/jiniology/js5.html

Make Room for JavaSpaces, Part VI - Build and use distributed data structures in your JavaSpaces programs:
http://www.artima.com/jini/jiniology/js6.html