Jiro technology was an extension to the Java and Jini technologies for dynamic management of heterogeneous services on a network. For effective, faster and easier management of Jini, developers adopted Jiro. It has now become a standard part of Jini

The base management services of the Jiro specification provided a common set of services for managing resources throughout the management domain. Specifically, the Jiro specification introduced an event service, scheduling service, controller service, logging service and a transaction manager. Jiro technology delivered:

• Simple Manageability -- by enabling creation of automated and policy-based management functionality to handle routine administrative tasks
• Greater Interoperability -- through platform-independent components and interfaces that simplify integration with other management solutions
• Dynamic Service Availability -- through a central management domain accessible to all Jiro technology-enabled resources on the network
• Improved Uptime -- by enabling devices to perform intelligent self-monitoring and corrective actions without waiting for human intervention

Here is a local copy of the overview

Links to management aspects of Jini in the tutorial:

Service Registration
Leasing
Transactions
Discovery Management
Join Manager
Service Discovery Manager
Logging
Security

One of the fundamental concepts of Jiro technology is the base management services. But how are these services that are being managed represented? Another fundamental concept of Jiro is FederatedBeans architecture-based components. The dynamic management services of the Jiro specification support the deployment, updating and recall of complete distributed management applications composed of FederatedBeans architecture-based components. The FederatedBeans API is downloaded with the Jiro Software Development Kit.

Jiro Management Applications

Could Jiro Extend the Jini Pattern Language? How are Jiro and Jini Related?

Create automated and distributed management applications with Jiro technology

Deploy code servers in Jini systems references in that one are good sites too (mostly jini)

Summer 2002 Sun announced that they will be migrating the Jiro technology to the Jini Community.

includes Jiro Presentation powerpoint slides