JavaSpaces^TM Service Specification

Version 2.0
June 2003

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The JavaSpaces^TM service specification provides a distributed persistence and object exchange mechanism for code written in the Java^TM programming language. Objects are written in entries that provide a typed grouping of relevant fields. Clients can perform simple operations on a JavaSpaces service to write new entries, lookup existing entries, and remove entries from the space. Using these tools, you can write systems to store state, and also write systems that use flow of data to implement distributed algorithms and let the JavaSpaces service implement distributed persistence for you.

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