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The Future of JXTA Technology March 2, 2006

JXTA technology enables a world in which billions of network services, all addressable on the Internet, will be able to discover and interact with each other in an ad hoc and decentralized manner through a multitude of virtual Internet domains.The main focus of JXTA technology has been to build a highly scalable and resilient Internet-scale infrastructure. For instance, JXTA technology’s decentralized P2P routing protocols provide the foundation to build a highly scalable search engine in which search queries get routed dynamically to the end peers that published the information. This is the inverse of Google’s indexing model, in which queries get sent to a centralized index cache. Unfortunately, for every new page that Google indexes every day, 100 thousand new pages are created that Google does not index.

JXTA technology protocols can also be used to deploy a decentralized name service to discover dynamic web services. For an enterprise, the ability to establish and control a virtual web service discovery domain can be essential to creating practical web service deployments. Enterprises will significantly benefit from the ability to create and manage virtual web service collaboration contexts that can capture their transient business relationships. Current ways to discover web services are either too static or too centralized to scale to support dynamic web service deployments.

JXTA technology has matured to a point where network infrastructure providers are embracing JXTA technology’s P2P network vision. In 1968, ARPA awarded the ARPANET contract to BBN. It took a couple of years for the commercial world to understand the value and leverage the Internet. In 2003, the Department of Defense awarded the U.S. Army’s multibillion dollar Future Combat System (FCS) project to Boeing. Boeing selected JXTA technology as the foundation for the FCS network infrastructure. The FCS network infrastructure has a good chance of addressing many of today’s Internet infrastructure problems and will bring the Internet back to its origin. It’s only a matter of time until the commercial world realizes it.

On June 15, the JXTA technology community released three implementations of the JXTA protocols: JXTA-Java SE 2.3.4, JXTA-Java ME 2.0, and JXTA-C/C++ 2.2 releases. These three implementations are fully interoperable, enabling the deployment of a self-organizing, highly resilient, and scalable ubiquitous Internet P2P network on devices such as sensors, phones, iPods, PDAs, PCs, TVs, set top boxes, DVRs, servers, and supercomputers.

Courtesy: http://java.sun.com/

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