"Today, Sun uses slightly different language in its official description: "Jini technology is an open architecture that enables developers to create network-centric services, in hardware or software, that are highly adaptive to change. It can be used to build adaptive networks that are scalable, evolvable, and flexible as typically required in dynamic computing environments." [...]
Right now, though, his group sees themselves as still in an "early adopter phase" in which they get Jini "into the hands" of developers. He estimated that as many as 80,000 developers currently work with Jini, building infrastructure, components, and services for networks, primarily in the telecom, financial, and health-care fields."