Harvest was a

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funded research project by the

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Research Group on Resource Discovery and hosted at the

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which provided a

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, developed standards such as the

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and

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, and spawned many other technologies and software products. After the conclusion of the project in 1996, development of the Harvest object cache was continued with the

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releasing version 1.5. The open source

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and commercial NetCache were both based on the Harvest object cache.

References

External links

Harvest: A Scalable, Customizable Discovery and Access System

Harvest User's Manual

harvest.transarc.com/

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20110510031651/http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/
An adaptive caching and replication mechanism for WWW
June 1997
Caching on JANET

Cached-1.4 ChangeLog
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