Van Simmons' Weblog
Down on the (Compute) Farm
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Grand Unification Theories - two fields of action
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Rather than speak in vague generalities lets go through two specific overlapping APIs - JavaSpaces and JMS - and think about what a unified version would look like. (From Van Simmons' Weblog)
A Grand Unified Theory of Distributed Applications for Java
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=5393
Java is in need of a sort of "Grand Unified Theory" for distributed applications. EJB, Jini, JXTA, and JMS have more in common than just the letter J, though you wouldn't know it from reading the specs. (From Van Simmons' Weblog)