JXTA - Sun's P2P Protocols

• Complex protocols for peering

• Advertise contents with metadata

• Search can be centralized, decentralized or mixed

• Choose which peers to send search query to

• Peers search using internal protocols, but send standard responses

• Developers report protocol is unwieldy, problems with merging results

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Peer, Meta and Distributed Search
Infonortics Search Engines Meeting, 2002
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