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| Seminar: |
Programming in the Jiniâ„¢ Architecture |
| Lecturer(s): |
Ken Arnold |
| Overview: |
The Mercury Project was created to extend the boundaries of pervasive access to information and wireless communication. The results of the project will facilitate the access to all personal data, of any type, from anywhere, any time, securely. The Mercury Project is creating both hardware --- the BackPAQ expansion pack, which is a platform for handheld research --- and software --- consisting of networking technology, middleware, and applications.
The Mercury BackPAQ is a research prototype enabling experimentation not currently possible with off-the-shelf products. The Mercury Project leverages the expandability of Compaq popular iPAQ H3600 design by adding a custom-designed expansion pack called the BackPAQ. The BackPAQ consists of a low power CMOS VGA imager, two PC Card slots, 32MB of flash, an accelerometer, and a cellphone headset jack and audio codec. The combination of these features enables applications such as voice or video conferencing, and roaming across multiple physical networks.
The Mercury software is based on Linux on the iPAQ. Linux was ported to the iPAQ by Compaq as part of the Open Handhelds Project(www.handhelds.org).
In the talk, I will discuss the project, its foundations in Open Handhelds, and demonstrate some of the mobility features investigated by the project. For more information on Project Mercury, go to http://crl.research.compaq.com/projects/mercury. where semID = '31';
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| Objectives: |
This course will go through the Jini architecture starting at a high level and ending up knee deep in code. The focus will be on object design abstractions using the Java programming language. |
| Seminar Topics: |
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What is the JINI architecture ?
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How does it work ?
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What do I have to do to be a service ?
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What do I have to do to be a client ?
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| Lecturer(s) Biography: |
Ken Arnold is a Senior Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems, previously
in Sun Labs, and now part of the Jini team as the lead architect of JavaSpaces.
Ken is the technical editor for the official Jiniâ„¢ Technology Series of
books, published by Addison-Wesley, and is a co-author of the first two
books of the series: The Jiniâ„¢ Specification and JavaSpacesâ„¢
Principles, Patterns and Practice. He is also the co-author,
with James Gosling, of The Java Programming Language, now in its
2nd edition. He is a leading expert in object-oriented design and
implementation, has written extensively on C and C++ topics for UNIX Review,
and is also the co-author, with John Peyton, of A C User's Guide
to ANSI C.
See: http://java.sun.com/people/arnold,
http://sun.com/jini, http://jini.org |
| Location: |
MIT room 54-100, Green Building |
| Date: |
Saturday, 10/02/1999 |
| Time: |
9:00 am - 4:30 pm |
| Pricing: |
Advanced Registration Price: $80.00 Good until Thursday, 09/23/1999
Regular Price: $90.00 |
| Session Chair: |
Peter Mager |
Directions: |
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| Books: |
| Title: | The Jini™ Specification |
| Author(s): | Ken Arnold (Editor), A. Wollrath, B. O'Sullivan, R. Scheifler, J. Waldo |
| Publisher: | Addison-Wesley |
| List price: | $39.95 |
| PDS price: | $30.00 |
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| Title: | JavaSpaces™ Principles, Patterns |
| Author(s): | Ken Arnold, Eric Freeman, Susanne Hupfer |
| Publisher: | Addison-Wesley |
| List price: | $39.95 |
| PDS price: | $30.00 |
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