Tuple Spaces
by earl, 7668 days ago
Tuple spaces were first described by David Gelernter in Linda in Context [Nicholas Carriero and David Gelernter, 'Linda in Context', CACM 32/4 (1984), pages 444-458].Basically, a tuplespace is a shared datastore (the space) for simple list data structures (tuples). A very simple model is used to access the tuplespace, usually consisting of the operations write (out), take (in), read (rd) and maybe waitToTake, waitToRead, count and scan.
Tightly coupled communication, as opposed to space-based communication, is said to require a "rendezvous" in that a sender must know the receiver's location and both sender and receiver must be available at the same time. Contrast to this the "anyone, anywhere, anytime" approach of tuplespaces.
See also: JMS, JavaGroups, JCache
Tuple Spaces revisited: [create Linda] to TSpaces (Presentation)
- http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ravenben/research/tuplespace/
Tuple Spaces page at the XML Cover Pages
- http://xml.coverpages.org/tupleSpaces.html
IBM's TSpaces
- http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/TSpaces
Sun's JavaSpaces
- http://java.sun.com/products/javaspaces/
TupleSpaces for Ruby
- http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=tuplespace
GigaSpaces for Java
- http://www.j-spaces.com/
O'Reilly: Space-based programming
- http://www.onjava.com/lpt/a/3309
search
41 active users
- unknown (41)
backlinks (more)
recent stores (more)
echo earlZstrainYat|tr ZY @.
