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Conclusion

In this article you've learned how to create a simple ServiceUI-based Jini service and how to use services with such ServiceUI-based GUIs from a Swing-based application. We've encountered and examined some of the intricacies of mixing Jini services and Swing applications, and made design decisions based upon them.

The ServiceUI 1.0 specification defines the de facto standard for attaching user interfaces to Jini applications. It is a simple yet powerful framework for developing user-oriented distributed services and applications and, when combined with the Jini service metaphor, it has the potential to change how we view application development in a networked world.

About the Author

Jeffrey Peden is currently a Java software engineer at Virtual Ink. Prior to Virtual Ink, he performed research in the area of distributed systems engineering and network collaboration technologies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Peden holds a B.S. in computer systems engineering from that university.

Resources

• Download the complete source code to this article:
  http://www.javaworld.com/jw-03-2001/jini/jw-0309-jiniology.zip
  
• Check out the ServiceUI project homepage for the draft specification, and binary and source files for ServiceUI 1.0:
  http://developer.jini.org/exchange/projects/serviceui/
  
• Download the Jini Technology Starter Kit:
  http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/jini/download.html
  
• Download the Jini-Tools utility suite:
  http://jini-tools.sourceforge.net
  
• Visit dreamBean Software's Website to find DynaServer and other utilities:
  http://www.dreambean.com
  
• Visit the Sun Jini Network Technology page:
  http://www.sun.com/jini
  
• Visit Bill Venners's comprehensive Jini resource page, "Jini Corner":
  http://www.artima.com/jini
  
• Read past Jiniology columns:
  http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/topicalindex/jw-ti-jiniology.html
  
• The Java Object Serialization Specification:
  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/serialization/spec/serialTOC.doc.html
  
• The Java Remote Method Invocation Specification:
  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/rmi/spec/rmiTOC.html
  
• Section 10.3.1 describes codebase annotation:
  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/rmi/spec/rmi-protocol4.html
  
• Section 3.4 describes dynamic class loading:
  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/rmi/spec/rmi-arch5.html
  
• Section 7.4.9 describes the MarshalledObject class:
  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/rmi/spec/rmi-activation5.html
  
• The Jini Architecture Specification 1.1:
  http://www.sun.com/jini/specs/jini1.1html/jini-title.html
  
• Jini Technology Glossary:
  http://www.sun.com/jini/specs/jini1.1html/glossary-title.html
  
• The Jini Core Platform Specification:
  http://www.sun.com/jini/specs/jini1.1html/core-title.html
  
• The Java 2 SDK Standard Edition 1.3:
  http://www.javasoft.com/products/j2se/1.3/
  
• Explore the JavaWorld/Flashline Component Guide for a searchable component database:
  http://www.flashline.com/javaworld/
  
• Sign up for the JavaWorld This Week free weekly email newsletter and keep up with what's new at JavaWorld:
  http://www.idg.net/jw-subscribe
  
• Chat about Server-Side Java in ITworld.com's Java Forum:
  http://forums.idg.net/webx?50@@.ee6b80a
  

"Browse User Interfaces for Jini Services" by Jeffrey Peden was originally published by JavaWorld (www.javaworld.com), copyright IDG, March 2001. Reprinted with permission.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2001/jw-0309-jiniology.html

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