Kerika |
Latest Update - May 28, 2007 - KERIKA 1.1 IS RELEASED! We are pleased to announce the release of Kerika version 1.1, a JXTA-based Java application that provides a visual context for team collaboration, with support for process templates, document management and sharing of large files. We released a beta version a year ago, that some of you may have tried out, and based upon the feedback we got we have made a bunch of improvements: 1. Sharing projects just became a whole lot easier: previously: just add email address to the project's team list and Kerika takes care of the rest. Other Kerika users who are online get a full set of project information (Idea Pages, content, etc.), while a storage server holds messages for offline users. But best of all: if your team includes people who are not Kerika users, they get their project updates sent to them automatically as emails. This means that you don't have to get everyone in the team to use Kerika before you start using it! 2. We now have more tightly synchronized views for all members of a project: whenever someone moves an item on an Idea Page, or extends a project, or makes some visual changes, or adds content, or attaches notes to items, or deletes items, or... these changes get reflected for all members of the team. Which means that everyone on the team always has the big picture, which we call "sharing content in context". Every Idea Page has its own Trash (Recycle Bin), so if any member of the team deletes an item from a project, any other team member can restore it later. 3. The code is all in Java, so go ahead and try it out on Macs, Windows and Linux. The UI looks identical on all platforms because we built our widget set, which is based upon the Mac's Aqua style. 4. For added privacy, users can set up their own "private storage server" on any machine they have so long as it is reliably accessible by the rest of the team. By setting up a private server you can create a "ring of trust": if any of your team members are offline, updates intended for them will be stored on your private server, which operates entirely under your control. The popular document management feature works as before: you can attach notes to documents, and whenever anyone edits a shared document, this modified version is sent to everyone else on the team; Kerika takes care of all the filing for everyone's computers. Please take a look at one of the Flash demos we have available at http://www.kerika.com/flash_demos.html and then give this JXTA app a whirl! Getting started is pretty simple: signup by providing a name and email address at https://sales.kerika.com/myaccount.php; then click on the link in the confirmation email we send you to get your personal License Key. After downloading and installing Kerika, start it up and give it your License Key and you are good to go. Your feedback would be much appreciated. ______Kerika, Inc. is a small, privately-held company based in Issaquah, Washington. Our exclusive focus is on software that makes life easier for distributed teams. Kerika, Inc. was founded by Arun Kumar in 2002. Arun has over twenty-one years professional experience in software, consulting and financial services, and has executed complex projects in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia. Prior to founding Kerika, Arun was a founder of the Jiway group of companies in London and Stockholm, which created the first pan-European stock market with an integrated back-office. Arun has also served as E-Business Strategist for Morgan Stanley's equities business in New York and London, and as a director of Polopoly AB in Stockholm. The software is currently available for free use; in the future, it may be offered as a subscription service or as an advertisement-supported service. Please see our Legal Notices, End-User License Agreement and Privacy Policy for additional information. For additional information, please contact us at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or write to:
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Collanos |
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Latest Update - May 14, 2007 - COLLANOS WORKPLACE 1.1 NOW AVAILABLE! Free Download: http://www.collanos.com (get your unique "Collanos Name" today) As always, we are looking forward to your valuable feedback. Thanks! ______ Collanos is a global startup that focuses on the collaboration needs of teams who demand a secure, cross-platform, on- and off-line and server-less solution. By leveraging open-source technologies, open standards, and a global development model, Collanos provides home and business users with a strong team-based solution that combines the benefits of classic client/server, web, and peer-to-peer architectures. Collanos was founded November 2003 and has offices in San Francisco and Zurich, Switzerland. On December 14, 2006, Collanos Software announced the release of Collanos Workplace 1.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Its collaboration client software addresses the collaboration needs of small teams. Users can create workspaces, share documents, start discussions, and assign tasks to team members. "Workplace 1.0 is our basic offering which we will always provide
to internet users for free. Collanos becomes the first vendor to provide
a free cross-platform basic collaboration solution that goes beyond free
email and instant messaging solutions. Home users and companies can now
invest their money in activities that further increase the value of their
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Verosee |
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Bertorello is a US Software company operating in Argentina since 2002. Bertorello's product Verosee is being used in over 30 countries in every continent. Verosee is people collaboration powered by Java/JXTA., as well as by Skype. The Skype Journal calls Verosee the "Microsoft Groove Killer". Verosee is free; premium services include FileVersioning, OfflineSynch, DesktopSharing, and RemoteAccess. Subject experts Collaborate.com confirm that Verosee is the only asynchronous and real-time collaboration application. Managed services and premises equipment are available to enterprises.
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Dextrus Prosoft Consulting is a Technology Project Management Consulting and Systems Development Services company. Their project management methods are based on best project management practices learned through the varied consulting practices and engagements. Their method allows them to assist their clients by:
Their systems development methods address the business needs, make a fine distinction between the technological and corporate goals and fulfills the strategic objectives of deploying technology targets. Their current product is "SENTINEL" - an ideal solution for managing and monitoring the connected enterprise network. SENTINEL is a lightweight tool that is distributed across the network, and utilizes lightweight modules residing in numerous locations around the network.  They are also aware of other peer monitoring modules around them. And they actively share their knowledge with them. The P2P paradigm fits neatly into the Sentinel proposed solution. Distributed lightweight peers cooperating to solve a complex problem, which was the dream sold by P2P frameworks. It was a lofty goal till the emergence of commonly accepted protocols under the JXTA P2P framework. Most of the other P2P technologies are designed for file transfers, and Dextrus' plans required more than just P2P file transfers. JXTA has made P2P a viable alternative to the client-server architecture, providing the most flexible, generic and standards based P2P platform available currently. With JXTA it has become very easy to rapidly implement a P2P system, which is platform independent and easily available. As such Dextrus Prosoft plan to use JXTA to implement their solution. And with the emergence and gradual acceptance of the JMX (Java Management Extensions) framework by the monitoring industry it would be possible in the near future to write management tools which work with each other. They plan to use the JMX framework extensively along with J2SDK and J2EE to designing a scalable monitoring solution for large networks. JXTA allows them to distribute the processing load among a number of monitoring nodes and thereby eliminating the need for bigger and expensive centralized server. (Compare this to the traditional way to solve the scalability problem in monitoring solutions is to deploy on bigger, faster hardware!) Looking back at the decision to choose JXTA Technology, Dextrus Prosoft feel that JXTA is the right way to go with respect to scalable P2P solutions. In the future they see JXTA becoming an integral part of the computing solutions which need to be scalable and which need to work on diverse platforms and environments - JXTA can become glue between complex distributed applications. Dextrus invites the JXTA Community to participate by joining their JXTA Community project "SENTINEL". For more information
Reported July 2005 |
PosAm, Ltd. |
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For more than fourteen years, PosAm has been one of the most notable suppliers of advanced information systems in the Slovak market. Their team has implemented many unique solutions in the areas of insurance, banking, industry and government. In all these segments, they helped to improve our clients’ main and supporting business processes. PosAm, Ltd. advocates open solutions, thus, the company utilizes the whole suite of JAVA technologies (J2EE, Java Web Services). It has implemented a number of Java-based products including portals, knowledge management, document management and e-learning systems. Project PETRA (PEer To peeR Application) was started as part of a diploma thesis of one of PosAm's software architects. The aim of the thesis was to design and develop application on a peer-to-peer architecture, explore concepts behind it, and compare it with traditional client/server or multi-tier architectures. This application uses JXTA as a fundamental framework because of it’s open and flexible architecture and because of on-going community support assuring future of the technology. After a sucessfull first iteration, PETRA was brought to PosAm at the end of 2004. One of PosAm’s software divisions started to use PETRA as a complementary way to share technical documentation. PosAm has decided to continue with PETRA,considering it as a possible future commercial product. Consequently, PosAm will earmark part of it’s resources to enhance the product’s features, gain more experience in the P2P field and explore emerging business opportunities. Currently, a second iteration of PETRA is in progress, such as methods to secure communication within peer groups, communication with peers behind firewalls, etc. Tomas Kysela, software architect leading the development of PETRA, sees JXTA as a big step towards changing the way we think about computer networks today. “It is very important that JXTA is backed-up by the open-source community. It is the community, which experiments with peer-to-peer concepts and revisits the specification statements. This effort drives the continuous evolution of JXTA towards P2P architecture that will hopefully enable us to move from central architectures with sequential processing to truly distributed architectures and parallel processing that emulate processes occurring in the nature.” For more information about PETRA and its use of JXTA technology, please contact<EMAIL_ADDRESS>. Reported March 2005 |
NTT Network Innovation Laboratories |
At NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, researchers are studying intelligent networks. They hope to support the evolution of various network communities which will reflect human society in the real world. They have been involved investigating the use of JXTA technology since Summer 2002 when the Japanese mailing list ja-jxta was launched. One of the researchers, Koichi Takasugi, has developed a seamless service platform using JXTA technology. This platform, called Seamless Stream Browsing, provides continuous content-delivery services even if the mobile content-delivery terminal is disconnected from the network, or user switches the content-browsing terminals. He is working on this project with Motonori Nakaura, from NTT's Circumstances Adaptive Online Storage System (CAOSS) group. Since this platform is based on JXTA technology, it immediately discovers a substitute or more adequate content-delivery terminal. It is a serverless and completely-distributed system designed to support dynamic network environments. NTT is using the Java implementation of JXTA technology. This product is intended for use by NTT customers. Takasugi found JXTA to be the perfect technology for his project for multiple reasons:
Once development began, the team found significant development cost and time savings. They could focus on their application's functionality, relying on JXTA protocol to seamlessly manage device interactions. Takasugi believes that the big attraction of P2P is its inherent flexibility. Applications using JXTA for P2P are not restricted by network topology and communication scaling. Anonymous communication between devices is an equally important point for pervasive computing environments. They hope that as more people are drawn to JXTA technology, the reliability and performance are developed even further than what is available today. Koichi Takasugi works with the developers of JXCube (JXTA eXtreme Cube) project, especially regarding continuity and service mobility issues. More information:
Reported January 2005 |
312 Inc |
312, Inc. was incorporated in August 2002 with a mission to develop solutions that maximize the global creation of value and harness the power of the Internet. 312's solutions empower people to protect what's important to them and concurrently provide access, information, and collaboration from any on-line computer. 312's LeanOnMe is simple to use, with state-of-the-art Java & JXTA technologies that automatically backs up your computer to one or more on-line computers (peer-to-peer). Simply select files or folders to protect and then choose someone you can lean on for remote storage and you're done. No tapes, no CD's, no monthly Web storage fees. This is more than just a computer insurance policy; you can actually access your data securely from any on-line computer where LeanOnMe is installed. 312's LeanOnMe uses JXTA as the 312's LeanSweet peer-to-peer Network infrastructure. The design team selected JXTA technology because the Java / JXTA combination met their requirements to build a platform independent, any-to-any application that works over the Internet. They reviewed virtually all available P2P technologies. Most other technologies were rejected because of their platform dependencies, lack of maturity and support. Their biggest technical objective for P2P was to use the Internet to get through firewalls. All 312 applications are written in Java. LeanOnMe also uses Sun's ultimate strength JCE libraries. Sean McCandless, 312's co-founder and CTO has been actively involved in the JXTA mailing lists. Daniel Brookshier, 312's advisor and contractor, is current serving on the jxta.org Board of Directors and is a frequent contributor to JXTA mailing lists Related links: Reported August 2004 |
SparkNet S.A. |
SparkNet S.A. is an ISP operating in Greece since 1995. It is proud to have been the first to achieve several major accomplishments. It is the first to:
Their project Provision and synthesis of services over a P2P network began March 2003. It is co-financed by the Greek Secretariat for Research and Technology. The aim of this project is to investigate and propose a P2P application where peers could sell services either alone or as a bundle combining their own offers with offers made by other peers. In this setting, a peer could be any small or medium enterprise which has a service to sell. The idea of dynamically creating business alliances and offering bundles by synthesizing the services of many small enterprises could lead to the provision of complete solutions which otherwise only large corporations could supply. JXTA technology provides the platform on top of which SparkNet can build a proof-of-concept application where different tourist operators would be able to combine and sell services. Operators can form their own groups (using the underlying JXTA notion of a group) representing dynamic alliances, advertise and search for services (using the JXTA resolver protocol) and charge for services (using an add-on protocol being developed). From the start, it was maintained that any solution will have to be independent of current practices. This was to ensure that any solution implemented will also be supported three to four years from now. By that time, current assumptions made about the operating environment may be invalid. Initially, the SparkNet development team looked into Gnutella as an alternative. They also examined different architectures like Morpheus, Napster and HyperCup. However, none of these technologies provided the flexibility required. JXTA was the only technology that was flexible and independent of underlying architectures. It was a critical decision when defining the product path. This flexibility and independence were strong benefits that they gained from using JXTA technology. An additional benefit, they also have access to a specification document, access to a reference implementation and access to a large set of resources. Furthermore, JXTA ties well with Java, the chosen implementation platform. They also feel that the backing of a strong company like SUN provides assurances about the future of the technology. These are all benefits that are important for a success of a project. A final benefit comes from the use of XML for the description of services. They believe that the move towards a semantic description of services will be vital for the adoption of P2P systems. SparkNet S.A. is a strong proponent of open solutions not tied to specific platforms. Thus, the company utilizes the whole suite of JAVA technologies (J2EE, Java Web Services and Jini). It has implemented and employed a number of Java-based products including portals, e-learning systems, etc. When asked about SparkNet's vision for JXTA technology, Nicholaos Petalidis, the Research and Development Manager says "We believe that as broadband becomes available to the end customer, focus will move to the edges of the network at the points where information is created. P2P software will be in a unique position to take advantage of this situation. We envisage therefore various virtual P2P networks where people dynamically select repackage and offer information and services. We hope that JXTA will mature into a globally accepted standard for setting up such networks." The SparkNet team has recently started participating in the JXTA community discussions. They plan to participate in the recently proposed JXTA Community project Nexus. They also plan to participate in project Venezia-Gondola which fits in their overall vision of the kind of P2P services that will be required in the near future. For more information:
Reported June 2004 |
Peercom |
Peercom, located in Seoul, Republic of Korea (South Korea), was established in August 2003 under the catch phrase of "human-centered technology and the system development." They work towards this goal by developing and providing middleware software for ubiquitous computing. Their software creates building blocks for new technologies based upon loosely-coupled distributed computing technologies such as P2P, messaging, etc. The main product of the Peercom, called "My Personal Portal", is the service that shifts today's personal computing environment from device-oriented to a human-centric environment. Also called the "personal digital asset management solution," it manages an individual's invaluable digital contents by integrating all devices. It also enables users to approach and utilize any digital content such as (PIMs, mail, files, photos, movies, addresses, my favorites, etc) at anytime and anywhere. My Personal Portal will distribute the most recent version of these digital files, without any physical restriction of time, or spaces like devices or network environment. "My Personal Portal" consists of three main services:
Benefits of these services are:
Members can get to their WebSpace and Shared WebSpace from a web browser and also directly from "My DeskStation." Features of the Peercom service are:
"My Personal Portal" uses JXTA as a communication protocol between devices such as PCs and mobile phone. During initial design of their product, Peercom reviewed other P2P technologies such as Groove Networks or Gnutella. They soon found many limitations to use them as a standard platform for various P2P applications. These issues focused their development team on using JXTA Technology, which shortened the required product development time (although there were some bugs found). A key factor in the decision is the network independance which makes the communication between peers possible in any network environment. JXTA Technology gives more and more clear meanings in networking where presently most PCs use Firewall, NAT, or Dynamic IP. JXTA Technology also improves development productivity for network-enabled applications. This supports many types of devices, and the implementation in other device environment such as PDA, cell phones, etc. has gotten much simpler. Selecting JXTA Technology shortened the time needed for developing their new product. Other technologies used to develop "My Personal Portal" are XML-based Personal Repository, J2SE, Combride, JXTA-based P2P, Peercom's own P2P Protocol, etc. Other Sun technologies currently used include JAVA, JNI to develop a portal for web interfaces. The version 0.9 alpha release of "My Personal Portal" will be released on 8 March, 2004. A short English-language demo service will be available mid-March 2004. Peercom is also working on a mobile P2P project based upon JXTA Technologies. This work is being done for SK Telecom, which is currently one of the largest mobile telecommunication company in South Korea. The pilot of Mobile P2P is currently underway. Peercom developers believe that P2P best applies to embedded devices rather than on general PCs. They expect that JXTA will be the choice for the platform of ubiquitous computing in the future. By porting JXTA-C with Phone OS as a starter, they strive to become the expert company in the field of ubiquitous middleware platform technology by applying JXTA in various embedded devices. Other JXTA Activities: Peercom has been hosting the Korean JXTA forum for 2 years now. They are the only Korean company publically involved in JXTA research. The Peercom development team also participates in "Tcp Transport" and "Rendezvous Service" tasks by participating in the jxta-c "Borabora" project (Jxta-C 2.x Implementation). For more information see the following links:
Reported March 2004 |
Nokia |
The Automated Network Services (ANS) at Nokia is located in Scotts Valley & Mountain View, CA. They're active on JXTA discussion lists and have participated in JXTA Town Hall meetings. ANS team members are pictured left to right: Felipe Albertao, Gretel Baumgartner, Nipa Shah, Anson Lee.
Nokia is in the mobile phone business, but that's not all! This department
specializes in Secure Content Management, specifically Nokia's anti-virus
and anti-spam product Nokia Message Protector.
The Automated Network Services (ANS) is a web-based server that provides
software updates to network appliances, including Nokia Message Protector. ANS is a distributed server, installed at different sites around the
world. ANS uses JXTA to communicate between the individually installed
machines. In effect, every ANS machine is a peer in a peergroup. It
is easy to add an additional server; using JXTA advertisements and discovery
service, the new server will locate and join the peergroup. ANS uses
JXTA sockets to communicate data events within the system. ANS performs
its database replication and synchronization using the JXTA socket. During the requirements definition phase of ANS, several requirements
made JXTA the obvious choice. The ability to provide flexible network
topologies for the installation of ANS at different sites. Using JXTA,
they can configure the ports and protocol used to get through existing
firewalls so that sites can communicate. Using JXTA, nodes can be easily
added and removed. JXTA provides the network communication layer. And,
since they are already Java programmers, the learning curve was that
much shorter! The team's vision for JXTA and P2P is Web services with 100% up-time,
affordable, any time, anywhere. They believe that P2P will commoditize
the availability and scalability aspects of online operations, by delivering
a platform where applications are truly decentralized and ubiquitous.
Instead of spending a huge amount of resources up-front, P2P will allow
businesses to grow its IT operations on demand, yet still providing
a secure and high-available infrastructure. Reported January 2004 |
Tryllian |
Tryllian, based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, provides tools for agent-based distributed computing. The tools are used by system integrators and corporations for integration of business processes, supply chain, web and wireless, and in other areas requiring complex business integration. Agents are autonomous and adaptive software components, providing rich, flexible services. A multi-agent system architecture allows you to break up complexity into relatively simple agents, and therefore, relatively simple relationships between the agents. Because the agents are adaptive, location-independent and loosely coupled, Tryllian's agent-based systems are extremely flexible and easy to upgrade and change. This agent-based architecture, together with Tryllian's tools enable rapid and low-impact integration of distributed, multi-platform, heterogeneous systems that work across organizations and along the supply chain. Tryllian uses JXTA technology for communication between agents (i.e., between components of a system), next to JMS and Web Services. JXTA protocols are used for the transport of agents across a dynamic network. JXTA protocols are also the key for agents to find their way in a network. On top of JXTA technology, Tryllian provides a custom-built agent security infrastructure based on TLS. Tryllian uses standardized components and technologies where possible. Using JXTA and Java technologies has allowed Tryllian to concentrate on its core business: building tools and infrastructure for distributed multi-agent systems. Tryllian sees decentralized architectures as key in achieving the next-level of computing interoperability. For more information about Tryllian’s software and its use of
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Clay International |
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Clay International is a small IT consulting firm that designs and develops software solutions for clients in various industries such as banking, utilities, and airlines. They developed Kappie as a way to learn some new technologies and have some fun. Kappie is an information manager that lets you create, download, organize and share virtually any kind of digital data. It works by passing items from person to person. When you share an item, you can see how many people have received it and how they have rated it. Kappie is a unique product that combines elements from some of today's most popular applications: email, file sharing, instant messaging, weblogs, and social networks. Kappie uses the JXTA-C implementation as the foundation for its transport layer, as well as to manage user presence. Protocols used include discovery, rendezvous, and pipe binding. They chose JXTA mostly because of the fact that it is open source, which ensures a rigorous level of peer review and allows for customization. Since Kappie is written in C++, it was a requirement that their P2P library have a C/C++ interface. Most importantly, since JXTA is non-proprietary and is maintained by a large community of developers rather than a single company, Clay developers believe it has great potential to become a standard technology on which many interoperable applications will be built. Prior to undertaking this development, they considered Jabber, Joltid, Gnutella, and Groove, but none of these alternatives had all the benefits of JXTA described above. Additionally, Kappie was developed on a very tight budget, so the most practical benefit was that it was free! Other than that, having a peer group of knowledgeable developers to interact with and draw knowledge from was hugely valuable to the development team. Vision for P2P and JXTAMany people are excited about P2P because it has the potential to fulfill the long-promised notion of allowing anyone to become an information producer, rather than just a consumer. To date, this worthy goal has been hampered by several problems: market fragmentation and incompatible technologies; simplistic applications that only support one mode of communication; and legal issues over copyright protection. JXTA, with its open protocols and rich set of services, offers solutions to the first two problems. Kappie is one of the first applications to demonstrate that P2P is about more than chatting and sharing bootleg music. The power of many-to-many computing should be leveraged to help people find each other, share their thoughts and expertise, solve problems more quickly, and express themselves creatively. JXTA enables all of these things, but no "killer application" has yet emerged to take advantage of its massive scalability. They hope that Kappie and other applications targeted at the mass market will help propel JXTA to the front of the P2P pack. Jonathan Clay been an active developer in the JXTA-C project for over a year. Kappie Links
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Morgan Spenser Consulting |
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Morgan Spenser Consulting, of London, United Kingdom, provides organizations with consultancy and research services relating to distributed-computing technologies. Morgan Spenser Consulting defines distributed computing to include any system that utilizes more than one physical computer to perform tasks in a single application. Systems from simple client-server installations made up of tens of machines, to large-scale P2P networks with millions of connected machines, all fall under the title of distributed computing technology. Distributed computing has grown chaotically since its birth and now includes many and varied different protocols, interfaces and implementations. This can be confusing for both newcomers and professionals trying to negotiate the maze of details required to understand these systems and cause many to underestimate the complexities involved in making these systems work well. Morgan Spenser Consulting has in-depth experience of working in high-pressure software development environments; designing, building, supporting and upgrading distributed computing systems. Specifically, services include the provision of consultancy, project management or development resources for organizations wishing to utilise distributed computing technology. These involve the use of a wide range of tools, languages and methodologies of which Morgan Spenser Consulting considers some of the most important to be; Java, Jini, J2EE, J2ME, JXTA, Grids, wireless communications, design patterns, eXtreme and agile programming and open-source development. Morgan Spenser Consulting uses JXTA technology because it provides a secure, open and scalable framework that allows applications to interact efficiently in large-scale networks. Using JXTA technology, Morgan Spenser Consulting can design and build systems that work seamlessly across a variety of network environments. Also, due to its open-source nature, JXTA has proved to be an invaluable tool for research into new ideas in P2P networking and best practices, in terms of design and development strategies. Part of Morgan Spenser Consulting's research involves helping to develop the go project in order to explore the dynamics of tournaments in P2P networks. The solution to this problem will be applicable to many different business and organizational needs. Morgan Spenser Consulting believes that JXTA technology will act as a stepping-stone to many new ideas and developments in the area of distributed computer technology. In conjunction with this, Morgan Spenser Consulting recognises that P2P networking will continue to grow over the next few years, becoming more popular and more widely used by computer engineers. This will allow organizations to provide scalable solutions for a variety of problem areas. P2P will expand from its base in media sharing and chat applications to become a technology that is utilized in all areas of operations. JXTA technology forms a preferred route for this growth by fostering both open standards and community involvement. David Savage, managing director at Morgan Spenser Consulting, has been involved with Project JXTA since April 2001. He has been active on the mailing lists, helped out with several projects including the Java platform and myjxta, and is project manager of the go project. For more information email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Reported January 2004
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Brevient Technologies, Inc. |
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Brevient Technologies, Inc. is a Milwaukee software development company specializing in Web-based software solutions fully tailored to meet the needs of businesses in all industries. Brevient’s Web conferencing center and peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing solution, Brevient Connect, aids in customer relationship management, coalescing visual, audio and data information into meetings and reports, and enhancing sales pipelines. Brevient Connect was written for the J2EE platform and illustrates key concepts of JXTA's open protocol technology. JXTA’s core functionality maximizes P2P and group interactions in a secure environment independent of operating system, development language and network transport employed by each peer. Brevient elected to use JXTA as its foundation protocol because it imparts the functionality required in the creation and implementation of a successful P2P sharing and Web conferencing tool. With rapid increases in the prevalence of Web-based applications and P2P networking, the uniform resource addressing, self-organized domains and spontaneous resource discovery of the JXTA framework will be essential to product development. JXTA’s standard development methodology follows suit with industry standards without limiting future growth, allowing for incredible flexibility in developing Brevient Connect and the ability for users to form robust, independent P2P networks. With the extensive collaboration opportunities and reduced network congestion offered by JXTA, Brevient continues to enrich the component architecture of Brevient Connect. Integration of remote control navigation and operation and voice operated data conferencing will grant users added freedom in P2P activities and interoffice conferencing. Incorporation of these components will enable Brevient Connect users to further optimize performance and capitalize on emerging state-of-the-art technologies. Brevient initiated development utilizing the JXTA platform in August 2003 after preliminary field research indicated that JXTA technology was the most adaptable, fundamentally sound environment upon which Brevient Connect could be constructed. Brevient expects to be actively involved in the development of more JXTA community projects during 2004. Demonstrations of Brevient Connect are now available at: www.brevientconnect.com. More information regarding Brevient Connect and Brevient’s family of Web-based products can be found at www.brevient.com or by contacting Dave Santangelo at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Reported October 2003
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Codefarm Software Ltd. |
Codefarm Software Ltd, headquarted in Brighton, UK is a leading specialist in evolutionary computing, providing products and services for business, scientific and engineering optimization across a broad range of industry sectors. Codefarm's products include a platform for peer-to-peer distributed processing, and an integrated toolkit providing a sophisticated development environment, job management and scientific visualization facilities. The Codefarm AI Platform has been designed to tackle difficult non-linear optimization problems. Able to harness the unused processing power of any number of networked computers, it solves large-scale combinatorial problems involving uncertainty, complex constraints and multiple objectives. The computational technologies supported by the Codefarm AI Platform can be broadly termed "evolutionary optimization", "soft computing" or "artificial life" because many of the underlying techniques employ methods inspired by the processes and outcomes of biological evolution in nature. These techniques include genetic algorithms, genetic programming, neural networks, simulated annealing and hybrid algorithms. Widespread adoption of these technologies has been hindered partly because applying AI techniques to real problems is difficult, requiring a great deal of expert knowledge and skill; and partly because evolutionary optimization is too computationally intensive for a single desktop computer, whilst traditional distributed systems frameworks, grid systems and cluster computing approaches have high fixed costs and deployment and administration overhead. The Codefarm AI Platform takes a peer-to-peer approach to distributed computing, using JXTA techology for all its underlying network infrastructure. The ad hoc, decentralized, and self-organizing character of peer-to-peer architectures dramatically reduces deployment and management costs relative to traditional distributed computing techniques, whilst enabling non-disruptive reuse of existing computing resources. The platform is optimized for a range of scenarios: from desktop PCs within one or more organizations or at large on the Internet, to dedicated server farms and clusters. Codefarm believes that P2P in general and JXTA in particular isn't just "cool geek stuff", but is practical, applicable and ready for prime time. Codefarm began evaluating JXTA in August 2002 as the underlying communication infrastructure for its products and found it to be an extremely flexible technology, embodying a powerful set of abstractions for peer-to-peer systems which are ideally suited to their needs. Codefarm is now actively implementing the technology and participating in the Project JXTA community represented by Miles Sabin, Chief Scientist, Distributed Systems. Miles has committed bugfixes against the core platform, and Codefarm intends to contribute code to the community. Codefarm has built a number of peer group services which address issues that are particularly relevant in distributed computing and grid-like applications of JXTA, in particular a matchmaker; a scheduler; a role-based security model; a leader election protocol; a code distribution framework; and lightweight distributed state management. For more information visit http://www.codefarm.com or write to Jeremy Mabbitt, CEO, at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Reported August 2003
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VistaPortal Software |
VistaPortal Software, Inc. is the first company delivering complete platform independent Peer-to-Peer framework for distributed, multi platform data access, visualization, reporting and file exchange. Their product suite, VistaPoint, helps optimize business processes by providing ability for unified visualization, linking, and reporting of data and information assembled from dispersed sources through the use of a distributed virtual repository, data access, charting and reporting tools. VistaPoint is based on VistaRepository, a distributed directory of resources located on multiple peer computers. It is built on a concept of a peer group (or Distributed Working Area) where every peer, large or small, can be part of a peer group and contribute information that becomes a part of a “virtual” repository. VistaPoint is based on pure Java technology and open standards such as J2EE, JXTA, and XML. VistaPoint architecture is based on five distinct layers that directly correspond to the standard ISO OSI Layers: Application Layer, Vista Services Layer, Vista Core Layer (peer group and repository), and Transport Layer. VistaPoint includes three API’s that allow easy integration of custom applications and services into VistaPoint environment: Application Layer API, DWA API(peer group and repository API), and Transport Layer API. VistaPoint is using JXTA as a foundation for its transport layer. Currently, they are using JXTA implementation of the following protocols: peer revolver, endpoint routing, rendezvous, peer information and peer discovery protocol. VistaPortal believes that JXTA provides the most advanced open platform foundation for our product that requires network, platform, and device independence as well as wireless access capabilities. VistaPortal Software's CTO Igor Katz is a member of the Project JXTA community and the chief architect of VistaPoint and VistaRepository. Please visit http://www.vistaportal.com/demos/demos.htm for a demo of VistaPoint Suite and VistaDesigners. For more information, visit http://www.vistaportal.com or contact Gail Raynus at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Reported August 2003
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neofonie GmbH, based in Berlin, Germany, creates IT architectures that handle demanding throughput and solve complex problems. The software company specializes in search and content management systems, as well as custom development of e-business applications. Based on the core JXTA platform, neofonie is developing the public service Science-To-Science which will allow scientific institutions, workgroups and individual researchers to easily share their knowledge using a peer-2-peer (p2p) network. Content providers of the Science-To-Science (S2S) service will install S2S Provider Peers on their workstations and workgroup servers. These peers gather locally accessible information automatically according to the wishes of the providers. Amongst others, local filespace, databases, Web sites in intranets as well as FTP servers can be scanned. The S2S Provider Peers maintain a local index of the fulltext and metadata of all scientific documents found. Via S2S Hub Peers, the super-peers of the network, search and download requests of users will reach the provider. Users will search for, browse and download information using S2S Consumer Peers. While certain aspects of the Science-To-Science service are specifically designed for the needs of the science community, the system can also be deployed in organisations and commercial companies operating in multiple regions or countries. The system provides an intelligent information backbone required for efficient knowledge management. Science-To-Science implements the JXTA Search specification and extends various conceptual as well as technical aspects:
At the heart of the Science-To-Science system, various software components from neofonie's regular product line execute the primary algorithmic chores. Integrated into the S2S Provider Peers, neofonie search:robot gathers information from various types of sources, converts a number of document formats into the XML format used internally and applies various content filters. Integrated into S2S Provider Peers and S2S Hub Peers, neofonie search:engine is used as a high performance XML content repository with support for fulltext and parametric search. The development of the Science-To-Science service is funded by BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) and DFN (German Research Network Association). DFN is a non-profit association providing high-performance networking infrastructure and services for the research and education community in Germany. The JXTA based Science-To-Science service will run as a service on top of the G-WiN (Gigabit Network for Science), the very-high-bandwith Internet backbone connecting research institutions throughout Germany. G-WiN is the German contribution to the Internet 2 initiative. neofonie's involvement with Project JXTA started officially on April 1, 2002. They have been involved in the community on the mailing lists and in the board elections. Further involvement is expected in the JXTA Search Project, as they are researching this technology at the moment. neofonie started the development of Science-To-Science using version 1.0 of the JXTA platform but is in the process of switching to version 2.1 due to the enhanced scalability of the implementation. neofonie strongly believes that p2p and JXTA are here to stay. Combinations of classical and p2p applications are going to be the fabric of future networking. The immense computational potential extant in networks today demands more efficient utilization. JXTA is P2P made easy and universally applicable. neofonie sees JXTA growing into a mature standard supplementing IPv6 to cater for decentralized connectivity. Currently the Science-To-Science Team is looking for workgroups and individuals in the German research and education community that are interested in testing the service and providing feedback as the project reaches its Beta phase, which will last from July until the end of the year. The call for participation in the beta-testing programme issued in late June has already resulted in several hundred registrations, many from noteworthy German research and technology institutions. From the beginning of 2004, the S2S network will be publicly accessible via web browser for search and download purposes. However, only registered users will be able to insert their information into the network. For more information, please visit the company homepage, the S2S project page or contact<EMAIL_ADDRESS>For commercial inquiries please contact them at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Reported July 2003
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The National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) is an industry trade association representing over 2,000 convenience retailers operating over 100,000 stores worldwide. Among NACS many functions, it has technical working groups creating an industry-wide specification for the convenience stores of the future. The Open Site Architecture technical committee of NACS selected JXTA technology as their connectivity standard for the devices in the smart convenience store of the future. JXTA technology will connect all the devices in the convenience store such as the fuel-level sensors, gasoline dispensers, point-of-sale (POS) terminals, and car wash controllers in a secure manner using open standards. These devices come from many different manufacturers. JXTA technology enables NACS members to deploy low-cost, open, standards-based networks in their convenience stores to connect devices from many manufacturers, with no single point of failure. Convenience store owners will benefit because it will be easier for them to implement solutions. They will save money by building to one standard, as opposed to diverse platforms. One example of savings would is the equipment required for tank gauge monitoring. Today each tank gauge monitor is hooked up to its own modem to reporting leaks or high-water problems. Being able to put this function onto an Open Site Architecture network means that a tank can be part of a peer group and notify people through a pager or a cell phone. The retailer is thus able to remove a modem and a phone line that are no longer needed. Another scenario... a retailer has ten stores and he wants to change the price of gasoline at all of them. He can create a peer group from his home office that includes the price sign, the fueling dispensers, and the POS. And he can send out the new price to the fuel dispensers and get confirmation that the prices have been changed. He can do that from a home office to all ten stores. Sun Microsystems has been actively involved in helping with this standard as has several of the device manufactureres: AT Systems, AutoGas Systems, CMi Solutions, Comtrol Corporation, Digi International, Gilbarco/VeederRoot, Kyrus Corporation, OPW Fuel Management, Radiant Systems, Unitec Electronics, and Verifone. You can find more information in two articles: Project JXTA Technology Is Foundation for Retail Technology Standards and Project JXTA Technology Simplifies Retailers' Lives. Or you can view a slide presentation from the NACSTech 2003.
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Global InfoTek, Inc. (GITI), is a leading-edge information systems engineering and integration company. They use Java, C#, Jini, JXTA, and .NET technologies to experiment and build distributed applications. Using these advanced distributed computing technologies, they build and integrate intelligent agents that span the enterprise and leverage the Internet to provide organizations with new capabilities. GITI uses the JXTA peer group model to enable Peer-to-Peer Knowledge and Information Discovery (P2PKID) and self-organization in multi-agent systems. Multi-agent protocols enable agent peer groups to create and share plans for collaboration, such as decomposing queries and aggregating results. The JXTA model provides a direct and robust implementation path for testing new ideas and experimenting with new approaches to virtual collaboration in the enterprise. They chose JXTA because it is a leading edge P2P framework with a large open source community of developers. The JXTA layered protocol architecture provides flexibility in the design and implementation of applications. GITI's vision is to extend the notion of P2P data sharing, which has demonstrated itself to be a disruptive and revolutionary technology, to P2P knowledge sharing in virtual collaborative environments where users share files seamlessly and securely. Brian Sayrs, Principal Scientist of GITI, helped start the Bench project to begin understanding and evaluating performance issues associated with P2P systems. He also helped create the "Hyperchat" program that built upon previous JXTA applications and Java components, including Chat, JXTA for J2ME (JXME project), and JMF to deliver multimedia content links in chat sessions to portable devices.
GITI's mission is to design and build innovative, affordable, high quality, component-based information systems - specializing in exploiting and integrating advanced products and technologies. For more information or to see a demo, please visit http://www.globalinfotek.com or contact Brian Sayrs at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Reported July 2003
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The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, managed by the California Institute of Technology, is NASA's lead center for the robotic exploration of our solar system. In furthering their mission to explore space, they transfer technology towards solving problems here on Earth as well. Their software makes possible the unification of data collected from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft and will be used to support data distribution for several future planetary missions. Further, the same software is correlating cancer biomarkers on a project called the Early Detection Research Network. Under the aegis of the National Institutes of Health, researchers are using metadata, data, and peer-to-peer networking to learn how to combat one of our species's most potent killers: cancer. Object Oriented Data Technology combines a metadata model with a software middleware to enable the creation of virtual databases from datasets across the nation. Scientists and other researchers can make discoveries using different datasets produced by different organizations with different meanings, as if they were a single, large repository of knowledge. JPL's DataService uses JXTA technology and adds an additional capability: resolution of resources given a query, and retrieval of those resources. Using an open-ended metadata model based on the Dublin Core and ISO-11179, users can query an entire peerspace for scientific data, whether it's astrophysical, planetary, biological, medicinal, administrative, engineering, or otherwise. JXTA technology provided just the solution towards solving the challenges presented by outmoded client/server technology: by turning the entire architecture on its head. Making every component in the system both a client and a server means decentralizing adminsitration and removing points of failure. The Object Oriented Data Technology task hopes to deploy JXTA-based solutions throughout the nation and raise the awareness of the benefits of the P2P model. They envision that, by making a JXTA data service easy to use, unprecedented numbers of scientists and engineers can join in a peer group's total research effort, leading towards the greater accessibility and distribution of data, and earlier and more frequent scientific discoveries. The Object Oriented Data Technology includes team members who contribute directly and indirectly to Project JXTA. One of our major developers has been involved with JXTA since 2001 as a committer and a project owner. For more information visit http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/ or write to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Reported May 2003 |
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| Zudha Information Technology, a Bangalore, India based innovative, quality driven software solutions company is providing tailored products and services across a broad range of enterprises. Zudha is extensively involved in research activities on emerging as well as proven technologies to realize next generation products. One of Zudha's products ZIM-Pro which is a Peer-to-Peer Instant Messenger developed purely using JXTA protocols uses the endpoint messenger and JXTA socket concept for identifying peers & initiating chat and file share irrespective to the location on the Internet. The Rendezvous peers across Internet aids in building a virtual peer-to-peer network for faster and more efficient flow of messages through it. Another variant of ZIM-Pro called RBIM is a role based Instant messenger suitable for hierarchy based exchange of messages within the enterprise or customers/partners. Zudha is researching and developing Customer Support Components (CSC) to run on Java, and C implementations of JXTA which can be easily plugged into any software product written in these languages. The CSCs would provide the users of the software a peer-to-peer environment to interact with other users of the product and find answers for their support requests. This would minimize the load on centralized customer support teams thereby reducing response time for support calls. Users would learn from their peers who are using the same product thereby adding value to the product. Zudha is closely associated with evolution of JXTA technology and is actively supporting the JXTA Special Interest group at Bangalore. Zudha has a vision of setting up a JXTA/Peer-to-Peer computing competency center at Bangalore to provide extensive support to develop JXTA-C and JXTA-Embedded RTOS platforms, while providing application development expertise in Peer-to-Peer computing. According to Zudha, JXTA is the only initiative in peer-to-peer computing platform which is driven by open source participation and adheres to a Documented Specification which could be submitted to a standards body. Backed by pioneers and innovators in the information networking industry like Sun Microsystems, JXTA has become the de facto choice of any business case where peer-to-peer communication is deemed fit. For more information visit http://www.zudha.com or write to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Reported January 2004 |
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| Digital Dream Inc. of Tokushima, Japan, provides a ubiquitous information environment based on object and agent oriented paradigm. Digital Dream has developed a groupware application called Ifreestyle, which manages and mobilizes personal data and is a powerful tool for team collaboration. Ifreestyle consists of five fundamental technologies:
JXTA is the main communication channel for collaboration among Ifreestyle users. The piping technology of JXTA is used to broadcast or exchanges messages within a specific group of peers in a secure and reliable manner. The rendezvous service of JXTA is applied to develop a manageable private network of peers. The relay Service of JXTA has provided the ability for Ifreestyle to support customers who are beyond firewalls. The open and flexible framework of JXTA has made it possible for Ifreestyle to integrate its own technologies with JXTA easily, including mechanisms for real-time event notification, online and offline database synchronization, distributed search, and detection of member presence. JXTA also provides ability for Ifreestyle to be deployed easily in various devices such as mobile phones, PDAs, and navigation systems. Digital Dream sees JXTA as a reliable and promising implementation for P2P networks, providing various services for different needs. The different features of JXTA are outstanding: cross-device, distributed architecture, cross-platform, flexibility, and open source features. Ifreestyle developers participate actively in JXTA projects. They test the performance of JXTA networks in extensible and large peer networks, and share the results with JXTA community. Ifreestyle's Web page includes a demonstration of the software. For more information, please contact<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Reported April 2003 |
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BBN Technologies of Arlington, VA, is an innovative R&D company, providing both advanced research and custom, research-based solutions for its customers. The Sensor Systems and Technologies Group at BBN is currently involved in a research project to apply JXTA and agent-based computing to the coordination of fields of sensors and robots. Their focus is on military applications, but the core technology is applicable to many domains such as energy control systems and infrastructure protection. Currently, the military deploys fields of sensors to remotely monitor areas for some activity. These sensors include things like motion sensors around the perimeter of a base that can detect intruders or underwater acoustic sensors that can detect submarines. The data from these sensors are all transmitted to a centralized collection and analysis point. There is an obvious scalability problem, which is that as these fields become very large, the amount of data that can be used is limited by the throughput of the data transmission medium. BBN is using agent-based computing to do effective processing of the raw data at the sensor itself, reducing the amount of data that needs to be transmitted. JXTA is used for communications of higher-level information between the sensors, so they can take advantage of other sensors' observations without requiring a fully-connected, high-bandwidth network. Along with JXTA, BBN is using the Cougaar agent architecture to develop prototypes. Cougaar is an, open-source, 100% Java architecture, so it's a good match for JXTA. Integration is easy because Cougaar has a plug-in architecture that lets BBN add JXTA communications without requiring modifications to Cougaar's native communications mechanism. JXTA allows them to use a more flexible model of communications based on peer groups in addition to Cougaar's point-to-point model. BBN needed a way for the sensors and robots to advertise their capabilities and interests so that relationships for data sharing could emerge dynamically based on the conditions that the sensors experienced. They saw JXTA as a way to add these peer-to-peer communications to BBN's software agent applications. They also needed to use a technology that used open standards like XML, had a solid open-source implementation, and a good Java binding without requiring all peers to be implemented in Java. BBN's work with JXTA technology began in the Fall of 2001 and was
presented at JavaOne March 2002 and June 2003. This is a long-term research
project that BBN hopes to be building on for years. More information
about this project is available at www.bbn.com/sip/ssw.html
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Siemens CT SE2 (Corporate Technology, Software & Architectures) is a department within Siemens AG that focuses on architectures in the area of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems. Working on the edge of technology on one side and being close to Siemens Business Divisions on another allows CT SE2 to bring innovation to Siemens products. The goal of the CT SE2 project was to provide a proof of concept for P2P networking, and for this, they used JXTA as the P2P-platform. Siemens has implemented an "Ad-hoc Awareness" application that allows mobile users to find people and required resources, such as devices and services, in an ad-hoc, spontaneous way. The application runs on the Siemens SIMpad mobile device using WLAN connectivity in the 802.11 ad-hoc mode, which means that no centralized access point is required. Network resources are found in a fully decentralized fashion based on profiles that are stored directly on mobile devices, the resource providers. JXTA provides fundamental functionality for P2P networking, and it is designed as a framework allowing for building applications on top of it. Therefore, the "Ad-hoc Awareness" application is built on top of the JXTA platform that enables features such as discovery and messaging mechanism in a fully decentralized environment. Based on these features CT SE2 has implemented an application that puts intelligence to the end devices, enables communication in the ad-hoc mobile environment and provides a nomadic community support. The Siemens group chose the JXTA framework because it provides all the necessary building blocks such as peer, peer groups, discovery, service, etc. for implementation of a P2P application. This speeds-up the development work. In addition, JXTA is becoming an open standard for P2P networking that will certainly increase the value of JXTA-enabled devices. P2P has become a synonym of efficient use of network resources and flexibility. P2P ideas are here to stay and will spread in the future from the personal communication area to the area of industrial, embedded and sensors-based scenarios. CT SE2's official involvement in JXTA-Core project started in January 2002. They have contributed a JXTA-port to mobile devices running Win CE operating system and Java Personal Edition VM to the JXTA-community. The contributed version of JXTA enables P2P-networking with mobile devices, such as Tablet PCs and PDAs, and these devices talking to desktops and mobile phones. They demonstrated "Ad-hoc Awareness" at JavaOne 2002. For more information, please contact<EMAIL_ADDRESS>|
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Sankhya Technologies Private Limited, based in Chennai, India, offers system software development services, contract research and development and platform products for embedded systems development. Sankhya's products include SANKHYA Varadhi, a standards compliant object middleware framework for distributed systems development. SANKHYA is using JXTA as a platform for doing basic research into identity in distributed systems. In particular, SANKHYA's work is aimed at developing a standard for an identity service where the identified prinicipal has maximum control over the information the Principal wants to share with other entities in the distributed system. An example of one of Sankhya's projects is the following: A Varadhi CORBA Client application invokes a request on a sample CORBA server. The CORBA Server receives identification information from the CORBA Client, that includes a Client identification string (E-mail ID) and a PeerId. The CORBA server then assumes the role of a JXTA client and sends out a message to Authenticate the Identity. A successful response from the Server JXTA Peer (CORBA Client) is used by the CORBA server as sufficient (basic) Authentication of the Client's Identity. In a more general case, the Client Peer and the Server Peer can exist in different Peer Groups with one or more intermediate Peer Groups acting as trusted intermediaries to complete the mutual Identification and Authentication. Current work is focused on defining, requesting or specifying various degrees of Trust and Authentication and the (distributed) maintenance of an Authentication Trail. JXTA technology allowed Sankhya to implement and test ideas without having to first build an entire P2P framework. P2P is an essential model for distributed systems development. A large number of transactions on the Internet take place between people, between groups of people or organizations and P2P provides a natural model for developing distributed systems capable of enabling and conducting such transactions. Sankhya found that JXTA is simple, yet powerful as it has all the primitives required to implement P2P systems. A Java, C++ or CORBA developer should be able to understand the basic concepts of JXTA and start developing powerful P2P applications within a few days. As the Sankhya research projects mature, they expect to take a more active role in the community. Sankhya plans to place a few demos on the web within the next few weeks at: http://www.sankhya.com/info/research.html For more information, please contact Gopi Kumar Bulusu<EMAIL_ADDRESS>|
InfoGlyptic Software |
InfoGlyptic Software Pvt Ltd, of Bangalore, India, is a customer driven and quality focused software solutions company covering the entire range of vertical market segments of manufacturing, finance, healthcare, telecom and beyond. InfoGlyptic has released DCFS Basic Version, 0.1 Beta, a product that addresses the needs of an Enterprise to leverage shared resources and at the same time utilize the existing network and the extra disc space available on the client nodes thereby reducing the load on a central server. While the DCFS basic version is targeted to be a home/office utility which works completely on peer-to-peer concepts, the Professional and Enterprise editions are deemed as complete enterprise solutions operating without a central server. The technology used to develop DCFS-Basic is 100% JXTA and Java technologies. DCFS uses JXTA technology extensively by utilizing all the JXTA protocols in addition to Content Management Service API. New services like EDS, similar to CMS, based on the JXTA platform are also developed to enable remote document editing. Java SWING and IO packages have also been used extensively to make this product efficient. InfoGlyptic chose to work with JXTA technology because while other file storage and distribution solutions technologies are heavily dependent on a Central Server, thereby unleashing the threat of Single-Point of failure, JXTA technology tackles the needs of DCFS by providing a de-centralized and peer-to-peer architecture where every node in the network has a role of contributing its best possible sharable resources to the network without compromising on security. InfoGlyptic has a strong belief in JXTA technology to emerge as a complimentary technology to every other client-server technology. A future where P2P, and JXTA technology in particular, will play a significant role in P2P Customer Relationship Management, De-Centralized Enterprise Resource Planning and e-Governance where contemporary activities rely heavily on a central data repository. InfoGlyptic actively encourages its researchers, architects and developers to keep updated with emerging technologies such as Audio/Video streaming, VXML, with a special emphasis on JXTA Technology. As a result, one of its developers has started and owns a project on JXTA-CAD, an effort to bring the Computer-Aided-Design community under the P2P (JXTA) umbrella. Infoglyptic developers are also involved in the vop2p project. A free download of DCFS Basic Version 0.1 Beta is available at http://www.infoglyptic.com.
For queries within the Americas contact Vamsi Maddipatla, Asst. V.P.:
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>For global queries contact Tarun Bhargava, CTO
InfoGlyptic, Bangalore, India at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Tel
91-80-5234448, Ext 101. |
Alberg |
Alberg Software of Andhra, India, provides next generation business applications, tools, and solutions in the enterprise e-business space. One of Alberg Software's solutions is Hive, a distributed collaborative workspace based on JXTA technology, which will foster collaboration among knowledge workers across organizations. What sets Hive apart from other collaborative platforms is the absence of a central "managed" server for regulating the processes or data storage. Each Hive Client comes equipped with a set of collaboration utilities like "Discussion Boards", "Instant Messaging", "File-sharing", "Calendaring" etc. This enables a knowledge worker to host a discussion using his own machine rather than relying on a central server. Web technologies such as markup languages provide rich-user interface environments there by enhancing the user-experience. But overemphasis on browsers and servers has limited the adoption of these technologies for collaboration. Hive tries to remove two factors that hinder adoption of collaborative technology into the business environment. First is the need for a "managed server". The absence of a "managed server" removes administrative roadblocks that hinder small businesses from exploiting the advantages of collaboration technology and knowledge management. Hive uses P2P technology to help the enterprise's network to self-organize. Secondly, by combining a servlet-engine and browser component in each Hive client, Hive includes "write" functionality to the read-only web-technology. The content created by the user will be stored in their machine and by using p2p technologies this content can be shared with others. Hive uses JXTA technology as the P2P infrastructure that provides the core services that make up a P2P application. The core services that are provided by JXTA are: Presence, Edge Resources, Identity, and XML-RPC Communication.
The demo of the Hive is available at: http://www.alberg.com/applese/Hive_Preview_Edition.zip.
For more information, contact Dr. Srinivas, GM Business Development
for Alberg Software<EMAIL_ADDRESS>|
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Oculus Technologies |
Oculus Technologies Corporation, located in Boston, provides distributed integration and evaluation software and services for the design chain. The Oculus solution enables people to make better decisions, accelerating the product development process and significantly reducing product costs. The Oculus CO product is composed of two pieces, the CO Engine and the CO Browser. The CO Engine, written in C++ and Java and incorporating JXTA, provides a simple way to create custom, neutral spaces for users to share and integrate content. The CO engine accesses content in databases, CAD programs, spreadsheets and other software commonly used in design, through an extensive set of adapters or plug-ins. The CO Browser, written in Java, provides a graphical user interface for accessing and working in the CO environment. Like a traditional web browser, the CO browser allows users to locate, navigate and work with data residing on networks of CO engines. Oculus uses JXTA technology in order to provide peer discovery for the Oculus CO product. By using JXTA, CO users can find other CO peers and publish and integrate data located on their peers with data distributed over a peer network. Oculus chose to work with JXTA technology for a variety of reasons, including JXTA being based on an open architecture with source available, Oculus having an opportunity to leverage existing efforts and technologies, and having an opportunity to contribute to a broad community supported by Sun. Oculus' involvement with JXTA includes contributing source code to the JXTA community demonstrating techniques for integrating JXTA into an existing application, as opposed to integrating an existing application into a JXTA shell. To learn more about the Oculus CO product online, go to: www.oculustech.com/products.html
For more information on Oculus and CO call<PHONE_NUMBER> or email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>|
Center for Realtor Technology |
The Center for REALTOR® Technology (CRT) is a department within the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (NAR) that focuses on providing a voice for REALTORS® with the technology vendors that service them. CRT's mission is to be forward thinking in understanding and assessing the impact of technology on their REALTOR® Membership. As the use of the Internet as an information source has grown, the posting of property listing information has become commonplace. Many Web sites that maintain property data allow users to search their listing database for properties of interest. However, listing data is widely distributed; it is (appropriately) in the hands of agents, brokers, MLS's, CIEs, etc. The ability to perform a search for a property requires the site administrator to aggregate the needed data. This type of solution introduces the significant complexity associated with maintaining data retrieved from disparate systems. CRT's Ernestine P2P project was born of a desire to eliminate these complexities. The Ernestine solution uses a peer-to-peer (P2P) approach to the problem of providing property listing search capabilities on the Web. The P2P paradigm allows distributed data sources (databases, XML, spreadsheets, etc.) to participate in a search without the need for the upload of data to a central repository. By allowing owners to maintain their data, updates are reflected immediately making the most current information always available. In addition, information returned as a result of a search is easily linked back to the Web site that represents the data source from which the information was obtained. The JXTA framework was chosen because of its open source nature and leadership position in this space. It provides most of the basic functionality necessary for the Ernestine P2P system. Its protocol agnostic design and XML messaging is a natural fit for this solution. This has resulted in reduced development time and allows the solution to be widely distributed at a lower cost. Going forward, CRT will continue to investigate the use of this technology to connect widely distributed data sources. P2P technologies have a great potential to lower the cost of doing business for REALTOR® vendors' and in turn lower costs for NAR members. The potential to search several sources of listing data at once, versus site-by-site searches, will be a great efficiency boost for any user of this system. Using P2P technologies, such as JXTA, will allow CRT to contribute significantly to converting this promise to reality. The CRT has found JXTA to be a powerful framework that fits in with the vision they have concerning the direction of this technology. They have had great success creating an architecture around it that they believe will make their Ernestine P2P system a success. CRT has gained a great deal of experience that will be shared with the JXTA community in the coming weeks in the form of lessons learned and code releases based on their Ernestine project. They will also make available a demo of the system off of their web page at www.crt.realtors.org. For any further information, please contact Aubrey Jackson<EMAIL_ADDRESS>|
Neunet Solutions |
Neunet Solutions is the premier provider of cross-platform component-based solutions to build Web Services and P2P solutions using Java technologies. They offer products that are readily available for easy customization, installation and integration that will lead their clients to build solutions rapidly and cost effectively. Neunet Solutions’ flagship software, EConExplorer™, has been successfully developed as the first dynamic content management and distribution solution that has a true J2EE compliant architecture, as well as having successfully implemented JXTA’s open protocols for P2P web applications. EConExplorer™’s content-sharing platform is a cross-platform solution that is based upon web services model, solving the most complex content distributing tasks that enterprises are faced with in today’s competitive landscape. Neunet Solutions successfully implemented JXTA’s open P2P protocols in June of 2001 into EConExplorer™’s content-sharing platform. EConExplorer™ is a P2P web application developed to alleviate the need to build costly custom solutions. It functions as the single entry point into an organization’s content network, so users never need know where the content they are accessing originated. JXTA’s Distributed Search Services permits users to logon via EConExplorer™ and locate all information stored in the various repositories found within the content network quickly and easily. This results in the transparency of information transfer for users. A common characteristic of P2P systems is their ability to act as provider and consumer depending on the state of the system. Therefore, EConExplorer™ has a Distributed Search service built on top of JXTA Search Protocol to allow users to transparently locate content in any defined ContentObjects™ (which is referred to as codat in JXTA terminology). By utilizing HTTP protocol, EConExplorer™ nodes can use standard HTTP port, which is widely in use to locate information of interest. EConExplorer™’s P2P content-sharing platform allows for locating of assets (such as documents in various formats, media files, etc.), and raw data (stored in Legacy Systems, Database Servers, Application Servers, etc) located within or outside of an organization’s firewall, using a purely web-based front-end, designed to appear and function consistently in many browsers on various platforms. The J2EE standardization allows for role-based accessibility rights to the P2P content network, thereby ensuring that only authorized employees, partners, and affiliates are seeing the content that is critical for performing their daily business tasks. For additional information on how EConExplorer™ can alleviate
the burden of managing and distributing your organization’s critical
business content please email Love Baladjay at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>or call toll-free (866) 5-NEUNET. For additional information on Neunet
Solutions please visit www.neunetsolutions.com.
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