Table of Contents

Acknowledgments. About the Author. Introduction. PART I: JXTA OVERVIEW. Introduction to Peer-to-Peer. An Overview of JXTA. JXTA Shell. Using myJXTA. JXTA Advertisements. PART II: JXTA PROTOCOLS. Peer Discovery Protocol. Peer Resolver Protocol. Peer Information Protocol. Peer Endpoint Protocol. Pipe Binding Protocol. Rendezvous Protocol. Developing a JXTA Application. JXTA Pipes. PART III: JXTA IMPLEMENTATION. Content Sharing and the Content Management Service (CMS). Implementing Security. Peer Monitoring and Metering. Configuring NAT and Firewall Peers. Using Endpoints for Low-level Communication. Building a Generic Framework for Distributed Computing. Building an Encrypted, High-Availability Storage System. PART IV: JXTA REFERENCE. Appendix A: Installing JXTA and Compiling JXTA Applications. Appendix B: JXTA API. Appendix C: Current Add-On JXTA Services. Appendix D: Latest JXTA Projects. Appendix E: JXTA Resources. Appendix F: JXTA Bindings. Appendix G: Other Peer-to-Peer Implementations and Toolkits. Index.

About the Author

JOSEPH D. GRADECKI is a senior software engineer specializing in distributed and Internet systems. He is an associate professor of computer science at Colorado Technical University, where he teaches a wide range of computer science courses, including Java and C++. Gradecki has also written several programming books, including two that explain how to apply peer-to-peer concepts to game development.