Jul
06
2009
TIBCO ActiveSpaces appears in cyberspace
Posted by Paul Vincent
I just discovered that TIBCO ActiveSpaces, a distributed / grid-based “tuple space”, is now, sort of, public knowledge:
- Jean-Noel Moyne introduced ActiveSpaces on the TIBCOmmunity blog
- Vivek Ranadive mentioned it in his TIBCO earnings call a week ago
- Dana Garner tweeted about it
OK, it was pretty much an “open secret” having being mentioned by Infoworld in their TUCON article from… 2008!
One to keep any eye on.
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By Peter Lin, July 6, 2009 @ 18:52
The activemq guys start a project called activespace several years back http://xircles.codehaus.org/projects/activespace/members. Is this an off shoot of it? or something completely new?
By Paul Vincent, July 6, 2009 @ 20:08
Hi Peter - TIBCO ActiveSpaces is something different AFAIK. It builds on TIBCO middleware technology. But interesting to see the an “ActiveSpace” project from 2006 though!
Cheers
By Peter Lin, July 6, 2009 @ 21:00
thanks for the clarification. it is odd coincidence Tibco ended up choosing the same name as the project james strachan started a few years back. I wonder if it will cause any confusion.
By Paul Vincent, July 7, 2009 @ 05:51
Hi Peter - I doubt it. The project you linked to shows updates last made in 2006 implying the project is dead. Meanwhile TIBCO launched its ActiveMatrix virtual SOA product area in 06-07, so a tuple space product called ActiveSpaces makes perfect sense. After all, its not like TIBCO is creating a competitor to an active commercial product like BusinessEvents by calling it Business[space]Events… oh wait…
Cheers
By Peter Lin, July 7, 2009 @ 09:15
I wasn’t aware of ActiveMatrix, so that makes sense. The activespace project started by james strachan does look like it’s inactive. Funny that activemq used “active” as a prefix for activespace and Tibco did a similar thing taking Active from ActiveMatrix. It’s nice to see Tibco push forward with a javaspace approach. I proposed something similar to this several years back. Nice to see things progress.
By Maksim S., July 22, 2009 @ 06:16
Is this in competetion to Oracle Tangosol and Gigaspaces? Will this be packaged as a spearate product? is this Java based or C++ with Java API?
By Paul Vincent, July 23, 2009 @ 04:59
Hi Maksim - answers are almost certainly / yes / the latter…
Cheers