Michael Champion wrote: > I have a couple leading questions ... > >- Is there such a thing as a "XML Tuple Spaces-based middleware >product" or is this a design pattern for how one would use an >XML/XQuery -capable DBMS with a web or Web services interface to build >an application that used the DB as a coordination point? > > Both, in a sense, but it is an oversimplification to think of tuplespaces simply as a DB.
>- Whether it is a product category or architectural pattern, >presumably it would hit some sweet spot between the expensive / >nonstandard enterprise MOM world and the vanilla HTTP world, right? > Perhaps. >Is there such a sweet spot? > > One would think so -- I am reminded of the following article that may be of interest: T. J. Lehman, A. Cozzi, Y. Xiong, J. Gottschalk, V. Vasudevan, S. Landis, P. Davis, B. Khavar, and P. Bowman, "/Hitting the distributed computing sweet spot with tspaces/," Computer Networks, vol. 32, pp. 457--472, 2001. <http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/TSpaces/papers/ComputerNetworks.pdf> Cheers, Elias Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
