JINI/J2EE Bridge for Large-scale IP Phone Services

Current IP phone architectures which bring phone services to a distributed open environment are eraltively static and do not scale well. An IP phone environment should be more dynamic. Using Jini to be middleware for IP phone services will make the IP phone environment more portable, easier to deploy and straightforward to extend. However, many global applications with complex business logic and potentially thousands of concurrent users are developed on J2EE compliant platforms. On the one hand, J2EE is a framework to support large-scale systems while Jini is for small to medium-scale applications. On the other hand, J2EE provides a centralized service whereas Jini offers loosely-coupled federations with dynamic administration. In this paper, we propose an architecture called JINI/J2EE bridge for marrying these two technologies, and allowing J2EE applications to be accessed by Jini.