Hi Devs!
I am a grad student and software developer, currently working on my thesis about heterogeneous distributed systems (IoT like). Looking at JINI documentation(now Apache River), I found many useful characteristics that would be convenient to use. That's why I am planning to use River base code and apply some changes to it. Primary, I will focus the changes on some common distributed system problems (master election, split-brain scenarios, voting algorithms), however the primary goal is to build a framework to manage small IoT networks (the client and service model works perfectly with this). I am still reading the whole documentation, and it appears that the only big issue for River to become a pure heterogeneous distributed framework is the centralized lookup service. So one of my goals will be to make it totally distributed, or at least as much as possible. My question is: Do you know about similar approaches being done in the past? I don't want to rework if there are some other alternatives out there. Any other advice, suggestion or additional information will be really appreciated :) Thanks, Pedro Villanueva
