Related Work: JXTA

• All purpose peer-to-peer platform
  • Plattform and language independent
  • Reference implementation in Java
  • Supports routing
  • Supports security
    
    
• Peer groups to partion peers of common interest
  • Membership service
    
    
• Advertisement of resources like peers, peer groups, and pipes using XML
  • Discovery and response messages
  • Cached locally
    
    
• Pipes offer communication endpoints for peers
  • Hide the delivery done by the peer-to-peer network
  • Unicast and multicast pipes
  • Basic types are unreliable
  • Reliable unicast pipe built on top of the unreliable one
    
    
• Relay/rendezvous/router peers take care of additional tasks