November 2005
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 14m
English
An increasing number of applications are being built using peer-to-peer frameworks. Peer applications are different from client/server systems, because in peer systems each network node is both a client and a server. Peer-to-peer systems became well known a few years ago because of the controversy over public music file-sharing systems. But there is much more that you can do with a peer-to-peer environment besides sharing files. JXTA (which is shorthand for juxtapose) is a standard language- and network-independent network protocol as well as an API. A peer provides a service ...
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