JXTA: Java P2P Programming [Paperback]

Daniel Brookshier (Author), Darren Govoni (Author), Navaneeth Krishnan (Author), Juan Carlos Soto (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672323664 | ISBN-13: 978-0672323669 | Publication Date: April 1, 2002 | Edition: 1

JXTA: Java P2P Programming provides an invaluable introduction to this new technology, filled with useful information and practical examples. It was created by members of the JXTA community, sharing their real-world experience to introduce developers to JXTA. It starts with the fundamentals of P2P and demonstrates how JXTA fulfills the P2P promise, then covers the essentials of JXTA including the protocols, the JXTA Shell, and groups. Later chapters include case studies demonstrating JXTA to synchronize data and to create distributed applications. Includes a foreward by Juan Carlos Soto, Group Marketing Manager for Project JXTA at Sun Microsystems and the jxta.org Open Source Community Manager.

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About the Author

Daniel Brookshier is a world-class Java consultant, author, and speaker with 20 years of experience. Mr. Brookshier's knowledge of software development covers many industries, including transportation, telecom, wireless, healthcare, B2B, petroleum engineering, law, insurance, software tools, and aerospace. He is an international consultant with contract assignments in the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom, and China. Mr. Brookshier is the founder of two Java user groups in Dallas, Texas, the writer of several Java programming books, and he has published numerous articles about Java in industry magazines. Daniel is a recognized expert on Java software development, Java standards, Java Management, enterprise software, and JavaBeans component development. Daniel was a coauthor of one of the earliest Java books, Industrial Strength Java. Daniel ran Talk-Java/Drink-Java user group, president for two terms at JavaMUG, and a member of the board of directors for JXTA. Today Daniel works at No Magic, the company that sells the famous MagicDraw UML Java-based modeling and simulation tool. Daniel can be reached at [e-mail]

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (April 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672323664
• ISBN-13: 978-0672323669
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #937,454 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Daniel Brookshier is a renaissance man with cross disciplines of humor and technology author, juggler, engineer, software developer, and an artist (mom has pictures on fridge). Daniel loves a good pun or a hard engineering or business problem. Daniel currently works at No Magic in Allen Texas where he is an Engineering Fellow. Daniel travels the world talking at technology conferences, as a keynote speaker, radio/tv/internet interviews, and book readings. Daniel helped to create the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) and works on other specifications at the OMG.

Why technology? Daniel has been a technologist from a very young age. Fascinated by computers, Daniel started withe the programming of a UNIVAC 1108 when he was 16. Graduating to the Apple, microprocessors, VAX, Cray and back now to Java and his beloved Apple MacBook. Daniel currently consults on Engineering, Enterprise Architecture and has clients from NASA to the DoD.

Why write Boys Books? First, they are humor. They are parodies of traditional science books for boys. The first book, Boys Book of Armageddon, is a book parading all the ways the world could end. The book covers doomsayers, marketing apocalypse, and even the best dog to own for the zombie apocalypse (a herding dog like an Australian Shepherd). Behind the humor is critical thinking and how to spot nonsense and a lot of nonsensical puns.

Daniel's next humor book is Boys Book of Pseudoscience. The next technology book will be Enterprise Architecture Modeling with UPDM.

You can reach the author directly at [e-mail]

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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book, April 26, 2002

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rattan mann (Oslo, Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: JXTA: Java P2P Programming (Paperback)

This book has all the hallmarks of an excellent book,including simplicity
of style,and in particular,an uncanny balance between the broad
picture and the details.

The authors start by putting Project JXTA in a global context and comparing it with other technologies and indirectly hinting at the ethical and political issues involving P2P networks.And then over the next few chapters they make a very smooth and organic transition to details of various protocols and APIs.

The authors have thereby solved the classic dilemma of the forest versus the trees - either you are high up in the clouds
passively admiring the beauty of the forest or you are lost in the woods screaming for help at every step.Often authors forget this dilemma and are either lost in generalities or in details.

I heartily recommend this book to anyone and everyone.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Poor Editing, Nice Introduction, February 8, 2004

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Enrique Pineda (Athens, GA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JXTA: Java P2P Programming (Paperback)

If you can get past the misspellings and awkward writing style, this book presents a nice introduction to P2P networking. The book's contributors all seem to be experts in this field, so I'm surprised that they allowed the book to be released before it was properly edited.

5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed writing the book, December 15, 2011

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Daniel Brookshier "turbogeek" (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: JXTA: Java P2P Programming (Paperback)

I enjoyed writing this book. P2P is a fascinating subject and JXTA is a general API and protocol to connect computers without server infrastructure. The book does a good job with introductory concepts, but the API is a little dated because the publisher has not created any updates since its publication.