Thursday, September 12, 2002

They're everywhere. Wouldn't this be nice: with the AOP framework I've described clients can use the object model directly. The server uses, basically, a persistent hashtable to store them. Now, what if that hashtable was a JavaSpace? Then the objects would be "distributed" and accessible everywhere, but you wouldn't have to know exactly where they are, just that they're in the JavaSpace. Then, what if that JavaSpace was backed by a JXTA peer2peer network? Then you could have islands of JavaSpaces that can talk to each other over considerable distances and have those networks created through the JXTA framework. Then, what if (some) objects in this network of JavaSpaces could migrate to whereever it is being used "the most" at the moment? Like mobile agents with attitude. All of this would of course be transparent to any client. All they care about is that the server has a persistent hashtable they can use somehow. I think that would be nice. I don't even think it would be tremendously hard to do. I also think thatt the coolness factor of this would be, well, way up high above the clouds somewhere. Hm..... [Random thoughts] Does anyone other than Sun even offer a JavaSpaces implementation? Why is JXTA spread over so many downloads? Personally, I love this idea, but let's build it on top of JavaGroups instead. 7:20:55 PM    comment []

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