P2P with JXTA-Java pipes

ABSTRACT

The peer-to-peer (p2p) paradigm is attracting increasing attention from both the research community and software engineers, due to potential performance, reliability and scalability improvements. This paper emphasizes that JXTA can help teachers to teach p2p with Java. This paper also presents an approach for performance analysis of JXTA pipes - one of the key abstractions in JXTA, which has not yet been fully evaluated. It explains how to assess a pipe and demonstrates performance results of the JXTA-Java implementation. In doing so, this paper assists software developers in estimating the overall performance and scalability of JXTA, and the suitability of choosing JXTA for their specific application.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.1 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
      D.1.0 General

General Terms:
Experimentation, Performance