JXTA in a Nutshell

HTTP Transport Binding

The HTTP transport is logically divided into two functions:

• The HTTP message receiver

• The message relay

The message receiver simply accepts JXTA messages over HTTP, while the message relay implements a protocol that allows peers to connect to it for message relay capabilities.

Message Receiver

The HTTP message receiver supports two operations: an HTTP POST of a JXTA message, and an HTTP GET that is effectively a ping operation. Both the POST and GET operations are performed on the base URI of the HTTP endpoint for the JXTA peer.