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"Jini in a Nutshell" covers everything an experienced Java programmer needs to know about Jini, including tutorial chapters to get you up to speed quickly and reference chapters that analyze and explain every Java package related to Jini.Certain of the statements herein may be forward-looking that involve risks and uncertainties.I find that this book offers to anyone seriously interested in organizational studies an opportunity to get involved in an area of work that is certain to become even more important in the future. Questions are posed here that can fuel dozens of interesting research agendas. The editors and authors are to be complimented for organizing their chapters into a reasonably coherent whole, with issues being raised and developed in the quite various studies presented. Only one minor quibble from me. Is it really too much to ask to have a concluding chapter that summarizes the issues presented in an edited volume? Just asking.Jini is a simple set of Java classes and services that allows devices (i.e., printers, storage devices, speakers) and services (i.e., printing) to seamlessly interact with each other without device driver. "Right now, we have lots of text-driven services on a big network -- HTML, XML, whatever -- on the Internet. That's great," says Scott Oakes, co-author of the just-released "Jini in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly, $29.95) "but it's only a first step. In the future, we can have lots of new services targeted towards any device; these services can come and go, as can the clients. Jini is what can make this possible."Several themes or "problematics" appear throughout these chapters. One is the ambiguous social position of the technical worker. While the relative importance of technical workers (and their numbers) has increased dramatically over recent decades, there has been no such increase in wages or organizational status. Technicians seem more to resemble non-technical workers than professionals in areas such as job satisfaction and organizational allegiance. This seems surprising, given the educational and experience requirements of technical work. Another, related theme is the ambiguity of the organizational position of technicians. To use the book's language, technicians can be typified as either "buffers" or "brokers," essentially as either assistants to professionals or largely independent practitioners mediating between a professional community of knowledge and non-technical end users of the knowledge. While both groups have to negotiate an identity in an organization in which their efforts are peripheral, this is especially true for the brokers. Who are they? To what community do they belong: the community of knowledge, that of the organization, or neither?HydroMaid International Inc. manufactures, markets, and distributes the HydroMaid(TM) disposal -- the only garbage disposal system powered exclusively by water pressure. HydroMaid's patented servomechanism conserves energy while reducing the potential damage to silverware accidentally dropped into a disposal.Culley W. Davis, chief executive officer of HydroMaid said, "I am pleased with the progress made in developing the initial prototypes since our first meeting and believe the results of the initial tests demonstrate the viability of using the HydroMaid technology to process food waste in a dishwasher."If the decision is made to move forward with the concept, HydroMaid will likely enter into a license agreement providing the appliance company with worldwide rights to manufacture and distribute dishwashers with proprietary technology."Chapter 4, Basic Jini Programming, is available online free at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jininut/chapter/ch04.htmlIn such instances, actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions at home and abroad, local and regional policies and regulations in the planned target areas, trends in the market for the company's products, variations in the company's cash flow and/or ability to effectively distribute its product, availability of sufficient working capital to manufacture and market HydroMaid units, technical development risks, seasonality and other risk factors detailed in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.Its patented blades and blade system cut waste into smaller particles than other disposals available on the market, reducing drain clogging problems and aiding the environment by promoting faster decomposition of food waste.
In such instances, actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions at home and abroad, local and regional policies and regulations in the planned target areas, trends in the market for the company's products, variations in the company's cash flow and/or ability to effectively distribute its product, availability of sufficient working capital to manufacture and market HydroMaid units, technical development risks, seasonality and other risk factors detailed in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
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