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Jack
At 11:43 PM 12/26/2001 -0500, Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
>On Wednesday 26 December 2001 08:15 pm, Champion, Mike wrote:
> > Definitely, because they're both based on David Gelertner's original idea
> > of "tuple spaces".
>
>Your should read the book "Mirror Worlds" and visit the company
>(www.mirrorworlds.com or www.scopeware.com). You can also visit the Linda
>web site http://www.cs.yale.edu/Linda/linda.html
>
> > Ruple and other "XML spaces" systems
> > exchange small XML documents, providing application independence, platform
> > independence, and vendor neutrality while leveraging HTTP/SMTP/FTP/etc as
> > well as XPath, SOAP and other XML techologies.
>
>Seems to me that "Ruple" is pretty trivial to implement given a reasonable
>underlying database. I'm not sure what the real value is though... how do you
>imagine such spaces being used? Perhaps for service lookup in web service
>registries?
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