Check out this chapter excerpt: Overview of Jini from the recently published Foundations of Jini 2 Programming by Jan Newmarch.
EXCERPT: Overview of Jini
Jini = Apache River
Artima: Jini has been accepted as an open source project under Apache incubator as Apache River. This may be the first of Sun’s major open source projects. NetBeans, OpenSolaris, etc. may follow, imo.

