Contents

• Introduction
  • Distributed Collaborative Applications
  • Client-based DCAs in Java
  • Caching Shared DCA State
  • Shared Data Spaces
  • Weakly Ordered Eventual Consistency
  • Overview of Thesis
• Related Work
  • Emerald
  • AFS
  • NFS
  • Orca
  • Bayou
  • Shared Data Spaces
• Design of a Simple Shared Data Space
  • Relay
    • Client/Server Structure
    • The Relay Cache
    • Weakly Ordered Eventual Consistency in Relay
    • Global Name Space
  • Multiart
• Implementation of Relay and Multiart
  • Java
  • The Relay System
    • Update Objects
    • Relay Servers
      • Server Hierarchy
      • Threads
        • Global Name Space
        • Eventual Consistency
    • Relay Caches
      • Storing Shared State
      • Providing A View of Shared State
      • Forwarding Client-Side Updates
      • Processing Received Updates
      • Notification of Changes to Cached Data
  • Multiart
• Conclusions
• Java source files
  • Cacheable.java
  • Figure.java
  • Update.java
• References
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