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JavaSpaces has been around for awhile, but it continues to gain interest as clustering of all kinds gains traction, and as the industry as a whole begins to discuss and implement more advanced forms of distributed computing. JavaSpaces and its close sibling JINI are the topic of a recent podcast discussion with Joe Ottinger.
Distributed development based on shared memory space has come a long way since the originations of Object Spaces by computer scientist David Gelernter.