On 4 February 2013 19:29, Greg Trasuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Out of curiousity, how frequently do people use JavaSpaces as a > long-term persistence mechanism? Obviously, it's one of the > possibilities envisioned by the JavaSpace spec, but most examples I've > seen (and certainly the ones I've implemented) have JavaSpaces as more > of short-term communications mechanism. Master-worker pattern, > scatter-gather, data flow design, or map-reduce styles tend to be > shorter-term, for instance, even if they use a persistence mechanism to > guard against server failure. >
Based on what I've seen with Blitz it's about 50% storage, 50% transient workflows. You get some odd ones like transient storage (caching of some description often). > Cheers, > > Greg. >
