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CORBA vs JINI

Posted by tom on February 15, 2001 at 2:33 AM

> Someone with a more thorough background than mine will have to
> respond with the details, but I would say Jini is more flexible
> and smaller. Jini can run on a toaster or wrist watch. I'm not
> sure if you could implement that in CORBA.

An ORB can alos run in a toaster and a cell phone.
we did that many times.....The biggest problem with CORBA
that JINI does not have is:
1. _CLASS BYTECODE_ and Object downlaoding
2. CORBA is stuck with legacy stuff and has to drag it along...