Over in ongoing · Java, the Grid, and Rio, Tim was “thinking about how you’d run a big distributed Java system as a service across a whole lot of networked computers”. Dan Templeton pointed him at Rio, and I followed up with a link to the papers from last December’s Jini Community Meeting in London. And I remembered a comment by Rob Gingell, adapting Santayana: “Those who do not use Jini are doomed to reinvent it.”