JavaSpaces(tm) Principles, Patterns, and Practice

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JavaSpaces(tm) Principles, Patterns, and Practice The Jini(tm) Technology Series Lisa Friendly, Series Editor Ken Arnold, Technical Editor Eric Freeman, Susanne Hupfer, and Ken Arnold ISBN 0-201-30955-6 2nd Printing August 1999 ADDISON-WESLEY An imprint of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. Copyright© 1999 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California 94303 U.S.A. All rights reserved. Duke(tm) designed by Joe Palrang. Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv Foreword by David Gelernter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix 1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 JavaSpaces Application Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 3 Building Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 4 Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75 5 Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 6 Application Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 7 Leases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 8 Distributed Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 9 Transactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 10 A Collaborative Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 11 A Parallel Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 12 Further Exploration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 Appendix A: The Jini(tm) Entry Specification. . . . . . . 307 Appendix B: The Jini(tm) Entry Utilities Specification. . 313 Appendix C: The JavaSpaces(tm) Specification. . . . . . . 315 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334