To state the obvious, matching entries that the client passes in sounds like tuplespace template matching.
Perhaps this is a case where we'd benefit from having around a tuplespace data structure, in addition to the service? jamesG -----Original Message----- From: "Peter Firmstone" <j...@zeus.net.au> Sent: Saturday, February 5, 2011 5:28am To: river-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: MarshalledServiceItem Ok, good reasoning, we can keep the Entry's explicit, in the call. So we make the Entry's the client's interested in, the only Entry's that'll be unmarshalled, those and the ServiceID. Cheers, Peter.