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Interoperable P2P: Jxta

Posted by michael on from the you-got-your-napster-in-my-gnutella dept.

Troy writes: "This article went up today (on developerWorks) about the Open Source project called Jxta, which is a community-run attempt to build a utility application substrate for peer-to-peer applications. Anything with an electronic heartbeat can become a Jxta peer." A nice high-level overview of how Jxta is supposed to work.

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  1. Jxta is not all that by hardburn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Jxta was created by Sun to be a "framework" for P2P networks. What exactly that means is rather vague. It appears to make basic development decisions that are better left up to indiviual projects (such as broadcast seaches). TCP/IP is really the only thing most P2P networks have in common, and even that could often be easily replaced with a diffrent underlieing protocol if it was necessary.

    There are several other assumptions that Jxta makes that it shouldn't. See this article for more information.

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