Will TSpaces work on all Java platforms?
Yes; it is 100% pure Java. We have tested it with various levels of JDK 1.1, JDK 1.2 and JDK 1.3 on Windows 95, NT, 2000, AIX and Linux. However, TSpaces is not compatible with Java 1.0. We can’t support Java 1.0 directly because we use object serialization for the communication to the server and serialization was added in Java 1.1. The solution that we are currently looking at is using another Alphaworks available facility that was also developed at IBM Almaden called WBI (Web Browser Intermediates). WBI would act as a proxy for TSpaces. The interface to WBI is standard HTTP. The TSpaces related code then would be implemented inside the WBI proxy server. WBI includes some facilities that make it very easy to implement this server code. It is similar to writing Java Servlets code (but much easier). • Can I use TSpaces across a firewall? Currently, we have no special firewall support, but for Java applications, you should be able to contact a TSpaces server outside of a SOCKS firewall b
