A Tuple Space Web Service for Distributed Programming

This paper describes the implementation of a web service providing a tuple space service for distributed programming applications. Previous research has established the benefits of using tuple space-based systems, particularly with regard to simplicity. This project has developed a new web service providing a tuple space mechanism for distributed applications based on web services. The approach that has been adopted makes use of REST (Representational State Transfer) for the web service. Initial results of testing the system for a bioinformatics application indicate that the project has provided an efficient, useful, easy-to-use mechanism for distributed web-service applications.