Content Comparison

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The tapes themselves are named "tape<currentTimeMillis>.tar"

Threads

To understand how the system works, threads needs to be understood. Whenever a user/client performs a request to the fedora webservice, a new Thread is started to handle this request. This thread will then attempt to handle the request, and when finished send the result back to the user. The user is thus "blocked" while waiting for his thread to return. Many users can, however, work concurrently, so many threads can be executing concurrently in this system.

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