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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ravenben/tapestry/html/background.html">http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~ravenben/tapestry/html/background.html</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>“Tapestry is an overlay network that sits at the application layer (on
top of an Operating System). Deployed as a network connecting a set of
machines, Tapestry allows any member node to route messages to any other node
in the network, given a location and network independent name. Furthermore,
Tapestry functions as a decentralized directory service for any objects
residing on nodes in the network. A node in a Tapestry network can advertise or
"publish" location information about an object it possesses. Any other
Tapestry node can then act as a client, and send messages to this object, as
long as it knew the object's unique identifier. These messages route through
the overlay from node to node until they arrive at the node where the object is
stored, such that the path taken is a small factor longer than the shortest
path from the client node to the object's location.”</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Maybe I’m just weird but I was reading thru this and thinking, why does
it always have to be java. </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Ah well….</span></font></p>
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