A New Lease on Life for jxtaSpaces

After a fairly long "resting" period, I'm seriously considering reviving the jxtaSpaces project. Three positive developments are motivating this. First, I think I've found a colleague willing to help me drive it forward. Second, the p2psockets project looks like it may save me a ton of work, at least in getting to the first milestone in the roadmap. And third, at this point I've got a lot of re-usable tuplespace code I can fix up and contribute to update the stand-alone tuplespace into something persistent which implements all of the required operations (such as 'read all', an atomic 'extract all', &c.)

So far this project has been a challenge in that it was started as an open source project very early in the theoretical stages on the grounds that many people were eager to contribute to the development of protocols and architecture. Unfortunately, what most open source contributors really want is to write code and/or use the results and contribute bug fixes once in a while. Most of the traffic on the mailing list for the last two years has been of the FAQ variety ("how is jxtaSpaces different than..." or "when will jxtaSpaces be finished?"). Though there are still many other projects to distract me, an O'Reilly network article on p2psockets has given me new hope for JXTA. Stay tuned.