One last thing from the original discussion... On 12/22/2010 3:27 PM, Dan Creswell wrote:
Maybe the test we should do first is to ask our users what they think about the APIs, naming and such....maybe you guys already did that and I haven't read enough of the archives to know in which case, my bad.
We haven't gotten to the point of surveying users yet; the start of this discussion was merely my list of suggestions flowing from being a user of spaces for years. So the first thing to decide is whether or not any of the suggestions have merit. (Thanks for your contributions toward that discussion, by the way.)
It was also immediately suggested that it might be favorable to preserve the original Javaspace interface and implement whatever changes we decide to adopt within a new interface (Riverspace?).
The implementation cost of such a new service would be relatively low, as it would share most behavior with Javaspace; the primary cost of that approach would be potential user confusion over similar-but-distinct services.
It may be the best way to introduce changes, however: it would be similar to introducing Javaspace05 alongside Javaspace, though we'd probably not be extending the interface this time.
jamesG
