Is Rodi BitTorrent's Replacement?

tilleyrw writes "From ZDNet Blogs: 'Rodi is a small-client P2P application, written in Java, that improves on BitTorrent by allowing both content searches and full anonymity. It's released under the General Public License (GNU). Even your IP address can be hidden using Rodi through a process called "bouncing." That is, if A wants a file from B, they get C to agree to stand-in on the exchange. B gets C's IP address, not A's. Through IP Spoofing A can even hide their identity from C. Rodi can also be used from behind corporate firewalls and LANs using Network Address Translation (NATs), something most home gateways have.' "

Comments

Why Java?

[SComps]

Admittedly development language is largely a choice based on preference, but why java? Didn't azureus teach anyone anything? Once that gets on a torrent for more than a couple of hours my system starts perfoming like it's getting ready to die.

Java (in my experience and opinion) just isn't really suited for large scale, multi connection applications. It's nice for the one off, fill in this form, play this game, do this task stuff, but long running processes need something that's a bit more lean and economical with the resources.