The Internet has evolved from a simple email and file sharing mechanism to a complex interconnection of web sites and dynamic service offerings. Today's distributed applications must address a number of problems like heterogenous platforms, disparate clients, dissimilar communication protocols and formats, and disconnected clients (and servers). What makes it possible for a programmer to connect all of the seemingly incompatible pieces of a distributed application together into a working system is communication middleware. Middleware is the unseen hero that works behind the scenes to resolve format differences, mask the periodic disconnection of network components, and perform multi-component synchronization. TSpaces represents a breakthrough in communication middleware because it has combined sophisticated database functionality with communication middleware to create the first instance of an Intelligent Connectionware component.

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- Enterprise TSpaces: adding fault-tolerance and scalability to TSpaces.
- TSpaces services suite: developing Service-Oriented Architecutures with TSpaces.