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- There are serious problems with using multicast technologies on NCSA's production resource subnets.
- 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 as payload, corresponding to the
ncsa.tools.common.types.Configuration
object as its payload element. - We do not require the full peer-to-peer capabilities offered by Jini.
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