Re: New language

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• Subject: Re: New language
• From: Jason Trenouth <jason@harlequin.co.uk>
• Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:09:34 +0100
• Cc: Maury Markowitz <maury_markowitz@hotmail.com>, info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
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Hi,

I haven't read the JavaSpaces stuff in detail, but to me it just seems to
another incarnation of the message-oriented systems idea.

E.g. CORBA has the Event and Notification services and Message-Oriented
Middleware (MOM) predates CORBA.

Loosely coupling systems via 3rd-party objects (spaces, channels, etc) is a
common pattern in distributed and dynamic systems.

Of course, JavaSpaces is a more direct reinvention of the Linda research from
the mid-1980s.

This isn't to say that JavaSpaces is junk, just that it is neither a new idea
nor even a new form of an idea (AFAICS).

__Jason

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