ABSTRACT
Historically, JXTA has been one of the most relevant efforts to build peer-to-peer platforms. Project JXTA was thought to allow any network device to exchange information without a centralized infrastructure. JXTA specifications define a common set of protocols for building overlay peer-to-peer networks. The protocols are based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), and thus they are independent from any language, operating system, and network. Implementations of JXTA specifications exist in many modern computer languages and platforms. JXTA 1.0 protocol specifications were released in April 2001, and version 2.0 was available in late 2003.
