JS.1.1. The JavaSpaces Application Model and Terms

A JavaSpaces service holds entries. An entry is a typed group of objects, expressed in a class for the Java platform that implements the interface net.jini.core.entry.Entry. Entries are described in detail in The Jini Technology Core Platform Specification,Entry.

An entry can be written into a JavaSpaces service, which creates a copy of that entry in the space [2] that can be used in future lookup operations.

[2] The term “space” is used to refer to a JavaSpaces service implementation.

You can look up entries in a JavaSpaces service using templates, which are entry objects that have some or all of its fields set to specified values that must be matched exactly. Remaining fields are left as ...

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