6.5 Moving Ahead

In this chapter, we learned the following:

• Rinda’s basic operations, such as write, take, and read

• Basic distributed data structures, such as bags, structs, hashes, arrays, and streams

• How to turn these structures into a class so that we can easily manage it from our application

If you want to learn more about tuplespace and Linda, read How to Write Parallel Programs: A First Course, which I mentioned in Section 6.3, ​Basic Distributed Data Structures​.

In the next chapter, we’ll take a look at advanced uses of Rinda, such as adding timeouts, handling client disconnect, and using a service registration server call Ring. Not all these concepts existed in the original idea of Linda, but I added them while using Rinda in an actual application and found them useful.