Jxta: Java P2P Programming

by Darren Govoni, Nitin Borwankar, Navaneeth Krishnan, et al.

The widely-publicized news stories surrounding Napster and Gnutella brought peer-to-peer programming and information sharing technologies to the forefront of the developer community. In the first month after Project JXTA (pronounced Juxta) launched on April 25, 2001 more than 50,000 developers downloaded the code and thousands signed up for JXTA mailing lists to get information about this new technology. JXTA: Java P2P Programming will provide an invaluable introduction to this new technology at a time when developers crave useful information and practical examples. JXTA is a P2P protocol which creates a pathway to pipe information (using XML) to enable communication between services within a community. This can be a network, a workgroup, or between peers across the Internet. JXTA is optimized for P2P connections, and is being ported to C so that in theory it can be used with any platform or tool.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672323664
• ISBN13: 9780672323669
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

An excellent book

This book has all the hallmarks of an excellent book,including simplicityof style,and in particular,an uncanny balance between the broad picture and the details.The authors start by putting Project JXTA in a global context and comparing it with other technologies and indirectly hinting at the ethical and political issues involving P2P networks.And then over the next few chapters they make a very smooth and organic transition to details of various protocols and APIs.The authors have thereby solved the classic dilemma of the forest versus the trees - either you are high up in the cloudspassively admiring the beauty of the forest or you are lost in the woods screaming for help at every step.Often authors forget this dilemma and are either lost in generalities or in details.I heartily recommend this book to anyone and everyone.