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1. There are serious problems with using multicast technologies on NCSA's production resource subnets.
2. We do not require the full generality of JavaSpaces with respect to serializable classes; our service accepts an open-ended (i.e., basically untyped) wrapper object containing a serialized xml blob corresponding to the ncsa.tools.common.types.Configuration object as its payload element.
3. We do not require the full peer-to-peer capabilities offered by Jini.

API

Service WSDL

IConfigurationSpace

public interface IConfigurationSpace
{
	void write( String entryXML ) throws Throwable;
	String[] read( String matchXML, int max ) throws Throwable;
	String[] take( String matchXML, int max, long timeout ) throws Throwable;
	String[] takeNB( String matchXML, int max ) throws Throwable;
}

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