How does Cougaar compare with JINI?
JINI is a framework for advertising services on the local network and a discovery mechanism for systems to obtain and lease those services. RIO is an architecture that simplifies JINI development and deployment. Cougaar agents uses distributed naming to find other agents, similar to the Internet DNS and UDDI. In contrast, JINI utilizes on LAN-local discovery protocols, where each JINI peer is scoped to the local network. Cougaar agents must define their services using agent-specific messages, which are free to define leasing structures and domain-specific service negotiation. JINI defines services as RMI Objects and has a built-in intra-agent service model.
