Space

A space provides shared virtual storage for data. A space is:

Legacy ActiveSpaces handles changes in this set of processes automatically: processes might join or leave the group at any time without requiring any user intervention. A space automatically scales up as the number of processes in the group increases, and scales down when processes suddenly disappear from the group or network. There is no negative impact on the data contained in the space when processes leave the space.

System spaces are a set of administrative spaces that are created and maintained by Legacy ActiveSpaces and are used to describe the attributes of the spaces.

User spaces are spaces that are defined by the user.