JavaT P2P Unleashed

In This Chapter

• Edge Services

• Self-Healing Networks

• Intelligent Agents

Jini and JavaSpaces can provide support for a number of services that are critical to building robust P2P systems. They include the following:

• Service discovery

• Distributed communication

• Transactions

• Self-healing networks

• P2P software agents

As mentioned in Chapter 14, "Jini and JavaSpaces," service discovery and service federation is fundamental to a Jini community. In addition, JavaSpaces supports distributed persistence and the design of distributed algorithms. JavaSpaces can provide a platform for rendezvous points in a P2P network. It can provide a point in the network where cooperating processes can exchange information in the form of objects.