JavaT P2P Unleashed
| by Robert Flenner and Frank Cohen In This Chapter
Techniques for peers to discover and use each other's functions are perhaps the greatest distinction between P2P technology and client/server Web technology. P2P technology expects peers to live at the edge of a network, and to require a variety of techniques to interoperate. On the other hand, client/server Web technology requires the network to know where to find resources before the request is made. P2P uses a group of methods known collectively as discovery. |