It was never popular and has been a dead technology for over a decade. (I can only go by mentions in publications. For all I know it has millions of deployments in some gadget or another. I suspect not.)
Re:Principles of Distributed Computing
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @08:14AM
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Not entirely true; many of the concepts from Linda (Jini/Javaspaces) are around in the form of KV stores.
Could you elaborate on that? I'm pretty sure you mean something more sophisticated than a key-value store, which is about as old and dead simple a concept as we have.
Re:Principles of Distributed Computing
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @08:39AM
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No, I mean, tuple spaces were always quite simple as well as a simplification, and the use of KV stores in many distributed computing tasks continued that trend under another less soiled name.
Jini was not commercially successful, but some of the concepts were quite interesting: mobile code, downloadable client proxies, leasing, look-up by interface, etc.
"The end of protocols" is a short but good read:
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~keith/classes/ubicomplexity/pdfs/i...