1.3. What Is JavaSpaces Technology?
JavaSpaces technology is a high-level coordination tool for gluing processes together into a distributed application. It is a departure from conventional distributed tools, which rely on passing messages between processes or invoking methods on remote objects. JavaSpaces technology provides a fundamentally different programming model that views an application as a collection of processes cooperating via the flow of objects into and out of one or more spaces. This space-based model of distributed computing has its roots in the Linda coordination language developed by Dr. David Gelernter at Yale University. We provide several references to this work in Chapter 12.
A space is a shared, network-accessible repository ...
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