What has replaced JINI?

Question

It seems that JINI is pretty much an abandoned project. The latest release from the Jini.org site is from last year, and there has been no news since then.

JINI appears

Answer 1

I believe that this technology just disappeared due to a lack of need. On the simple end, web services take care of distributed needs. On the high performance end, clustering and networking with lower overhead takes care of most needs.