Re: [service-orientated-architecture] TSpaces (was: Re: XML Tuple Spaces as Middleware)

[Keith Harrison-Broninski]

Gervas Douglas wrote: I have never heard a single simple convincing explanation for why no tuple spaces implementation has taken off. I suspect the reason is the same for TSpaces as for Jini.  It's just too different, and difficult, for most people to understand. Look how long and hard Gregg has had to work to get people on this list, who must be among the brightest and most techie in IT, to appreciate what Jini has to offer.  It's only recently that more than one or two people have started to acknowledge that he may have a point!  And unless you have taken the time to actually build code with Jini, you are unlikely to fully "get" it.  Taking just one example, witness the recent misunderstanding about how RMI works. So I don't think Jini's poor take-up is solely the fault of Sun's marketing department, really.  Awareness won't really change until Jini and RMI are given their due in CS classes at all levels.  What Sun should be doing is focusing on the next generation. I'm not particularly a Jini devotee, by the way.  But I have used it to build a large-scale commercial product (as an optional alternative persistence mechanism to an RDBMS), and can see how in many ways Jini offers looser coupling than XML-based approaches. -- All the best Keith http://keith.harrison-broninski.info SPONSORED LINKS Computer software Computer aided design software Computer job Soa Service-oriented architecture YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "service-orientated-architecture" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.