Sun makes room for Jxta
CNET
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January 28, 2004, 2:05 PM PT
Sun Microsystems
is planning to incorporate software developed through its peer-to-peer computing
initiative, Project Jxta, into its commercial software products.
Jxta software provides "plumbing" between networked machines to make
communication easier, bypassing a central server and allowing computers and
devices to automatically detect each other and share information directly. For
the past three years, it has been developed as an open-source
project backed by Sun, and has been used by several third-party software
makers in their products.
Now Sun is devising plans to slip Jxta tools into its own server and desktop
product lines, Ingrid Van Den Hoogen, the company's director of software
marketing, told CNET News.com on Tuesday. In the next year or two, Sun will
incorporate aspects of Jxta in its Java Desktop System, a set of open-source
desktop applications based on Linux, and in its Java Enterprise System Java
server software bundle, she said.
"There are some very simple things we could do (with Jxta), such as extending
the Java Desktop System to be more collaborative and offer peer-to-peer
features," said Van Den Hoogen. Sun has approached customers to find out the
best way to utilize Jxta in its products, she said.
Sun's Java server line will also take on some peer-computing capabilities
from Jxta, according to company executives. It could be used to improve the
management and scalability of products such as Sun's portal or its calendar
server, executives said.
By making servers act as peers, rather than having them controlled by a
central server, companies will be able to more easily offload processing load
from one server to another, said Juan Soto, the director of Sun's advanced
technology group
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