December 10, 2001
Future Boy: Bill Joy's New Passion: Industrial-Strength P2P
Future Boy: Bill Joy's New Passion: Industrial-Strength P2P
So what, exactly, is Jxta? It could be the equivalent of Microsoft's Windows for the world of peer-to-peer computing. Jxta provides ground rules that all peer-to-peer networks and applications can adhere to. And it's an open-source system, meaning that it's free and anyone can add to it or improve upon it. Sun is broadly defining a "peer" as any computing device connected to a network, from a cell phone to a supercomputer.
Posted by rshah at December 10, 2001 12:00 PM