vanessa williams has announced the release of JXTASpaces, which is:

... an experimental project to design and implement a distributed shared memory service on the JXTA peer-to-peer computing platform.

check it out!

Java == platform independence
XML == application independence
JXTA == network independence

Secure End-to-End Computing

in my ears: UnderWorld/Dirty Epic:CowGirl/River of Bass