Hi Marco
I'm afraid I don't know much about Rio but have evaluated Jini.
A key benefit of Shoal is that it provides an API through which client
services can be dynamically registered irrespective of the underlying
group communication provider. In our default case, we have Jxta but
nothing prevents one from having a Jini or any other grouping
mechanism/toolkit to be that provider.
I'd encourage you to go through the overview presentation located on the
Shoal home page to get a quick and good idea of what Shoal offers.
Key benefits of using Jxta is its strong security model, choice of
transports over which communication can occur with almost zero
configuration, ability to transcend firewalls, Peer Id based addressing
semantics, its natural group composition based architecture, etc. To
build a notification bus and true group communication features, we had
to only add about 8 classes that provide the necessary group controller,
group view handling, health checking and network configuration
functionalities.
Do let us know if you have more questions.
regards
Shreedhar
Marco Balzter wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> i posted this message to the users_at_rio.dev.java.net Mailing list
> but didn't get an answer yet.
>
> We are developing a distributed and scalable Java application with
> components hosted on several Application Servers.
> Rigt now I'm in the process of evaluating frameworks which can help
> us in the process of dynamically register/unregister components,
> lookup services and all kinds of managing the deployed components.
> I stumbled across the Rio and the Shoal Framework which are both
> java.net projects.
> The difference between these frameworks seems to be the underlying
> technology (Jini for Rio and JXTA for Shoal).
> Do these two projects provide fairly the same solutions with different
> technologies or do i miss the big point?
>
> I hope this is the appropiate forum for my request.
> Thanks.
>
>
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