JavaSpaces Principles, Patterns, and Practice

This book introduces the JavaSpaces architecture, provides a definitive and comprehensive description of the model, and demonstrates how to use it to develop distributed computing applications. The book presents an overview of the JavaSpaces design and walks you through the basics, demonstrating key features through examples. Every aspect of JavaSpaces programming is examined in depth: entries, distributed data structures, synchronization, communication, application patterns, leases, distributed events, and transactions.

Eric Freeman is co-founder and CTO of Mirror Worlds Technologies,a Java and Jini-based software company. Dr Freeman previously worked at Yale University on space-based systems, and is a Fellow at Yale's Center for Internet Studies.

Susanne Hupfer is Director of Product Development for Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. and a Fellow of the Yale University Center for Internet Studies. Previously she taught Java network programming as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Trinity College. She has a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale, where she researched space-based coordination languages and groupware.

Ken Arnold, formerly senior engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, is a leading expert in object-oriented design and implementation. He was one of the original architects of the Jini™ technology, and the lead engineer of Sun's JavaSpaces™ technology.