Phil Tomson wrote in message ... >I guess I'm looking for the 50000ft view of TupleSpace... and can someone >tell me why I would use them? See Mirror Worlds : Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox : How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean by David Hillel Gelernter http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/019507906X/ And http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~croft/research/agent/tuplespaces/ Massively parallel programming is the main goal. You might alos want to check out the work on "Linda" that is associated with the tuple space idea. Pete ---- Pete McBreen, McBreen.Consulting , Cochrane, AB email: petemcbreen / acm.org http://www.mcbreen.ab.ca/ Author, "Software Craftsmanship The New Imperative" Addison-Wesley (C) 2002 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201733862