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Date: Fri Jan  7 13:19:06 2011
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+<h1 id="river">River</h1>
+<p>River is a toolkit to build distributed systems with. 
+The basic communication between client and service is based on RPC.</p>
 <h1 id="communication">Communication</h1>
-<p>Client and server communicate with a protocol called JERI. 
+<p>Client and service communicate with a protocol called JERI. 
 There are JERI implementations for plain-TCP, plain-SSL, HTTP, HTTPS and Kerberos-TCP.
 For compatibility with RMI there is also a JRMP transport.</p>
 <h1 id="from_small_to_big">From small to big</h1>
-<p>The smallest river system is comprised of a rpc-server and a rpc-client.
+<p>The smallest river system is comprised of a service and a client.
 They only make use of JERI to communicate. No dynamic discovery is possible.</p>
-<p>The next system in size is a combination of a rpc-server, rpc-client and a registry. 
+<p>The next system in size is a combination of a service, client and a registry. 
 This allows for automatic discovery of client, server and registry. 
-The rpc-server provides services and registers them in the registry.</p>
-<p>For a system that also provides for downloadable code, you will need a rpc-server, 
-rpc-client, registry and codebase-server.</p>
-<h1 id="services">Services</h1>
-<p>...</p>
+The VM hosting the service registers the service in the registry.</p>
+<p>For a system that also provides for downloadable code, you will need a service, 
+client, registry and codebase-server.</p>
+<h1 id="basic_services">Basic services</h1>
+<p>There are several basic services. For locking, distributed events, leasing, transactions.</p>
+<h1 id="extended_services">Extended services</h1>
+<p>River has an implementation of 'Tuple spaces' called JavaSpaces.</p>
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