JS.2. Operations

There are four primary kinds of operations that you can invoke on a JavaSpaces service. Each operation has parameters that are entries, including some that are templates, which are a kind of entry. This chapter describes entries, templates, and the details of the operations, which are:

  • write: Write the given entry into this JavaSpaces service.

  • read: Read an entry from this JavaSpaces service that matches the given template.

  • take: Read an entry from this JavaSpaces service that matches the given template, removing it from this space.

  • notify: Notify a specified object when entries that match the given template are written into this JavaSpaces service.

As used in this document, the term “operation” refers to a single invocation ...

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