Sun Microsystems reports that over a million downloads have been made of Project JXTA, its open source technology for cross-platform, inter-device peer-to-peer networking. JXTA is the only open source, standards-based technology that supports collaboration and communication on any networked device anywhere, anytime.
Sean O'Hare, Java systems engineer at Sun Microsystems SA, explains that JXTA allows devices to communicate and collaborate across a wide variety of operating systems and networked devices, ranging from sensors to cellphones to desktops to super servers. "JXTA allows corporate information to flow seamlessly between these devices, making vital data transparently available to information workers," he says.
According to O'Hare, the staggering number of downloads of the technology highlights the mounting adoption of JXTA for peer-to-peer application and service deployment. "The JXTA initiative provides companies with a low-cost basis to create more connected business environments, while equipping innovative independent software vendors (ISV) with a technology that enables them to profit from open source computing," says O'Hare.
JXTA is already finding its way into production environments in corporate America. The National Association of Realtors, and the National Association of Convenience Stores, for example, have developed systems that exchange data across heterogeneous operating systems. In addition, ISV InView Software has built a commercial application, Momentum, on the JXTA protocol, and momentum allows users to share files and collaborate by creating workspaces on the fly that they then invite other users to join.
An open source community of more than 12 700 members has evolved Project JXTA into an open set of XML-based protocols for creating peer-to-peer style network computing applications and services quickly and easily. The community is also releasing JXTA Version 2.0, which offers enhanced scalability and performance. The new release can be downloaded from www.jxta.org.
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Project JXTA
JXTA is an open, generalised peer-to-peer platform that allows any connected device on the network to communicate and collaborate. Sun Microsystems developed and released JXTA to the open source community in April 2001. JXTA can be applied across multiple platforms including the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), C language, and others. Any device on the network including cellphones, two-way pagers, electronic sensors, PDAs, desktop computers and servers, can be connected using JXTA.
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