Chapter 10 at a Glance
As its focus, this chapter has two very different approaches to building a larger-scope platform for decentralized collaborative networks.
Groove is an example of application-space collaboration as middleware p2p.
The Architecture examines the Groove peer product, which mainly targets corporate users, and goes on to explain its core concept of Shared Workspaces.
The Protocol section describes what’s known about the proprietary technical side.
Security Issues and Client Issues take up both strong points and weak points in the current prototype.
JXTA presents an overview of an initiative also being developed commercially, but as open source, which targets the entire infrastructure of the Internet.
Jxta Architecture looks at ...
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