Peer to Peer Application Development: Cracking the Code (With CD-ROM) [Paperback]

Dreamtech Software Team (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0764549049 | ISBN-13: 978-0764549045

Part of the new Cracking the Code Series, Peer to Peer Application Development takes a look at the code behind Napster-style Peer to Peer (P2P) applications. This book covers complete web application with design specifications, flow diagrams and source code with line-by-line explanations. You'll build a completely functional P2P application and clients with audio/video streaming, chat and wireless capabilities. Other topics covered include building the P2P Server, building clients in C# and Java, XML data, wireless integration and more!

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From the Back Cover

Cracking the Code Peer-to-Peer Application Development Create Tomorrow's Peer-to-Peer Applications Today In this unique guide, a crack team of software engineers delivers the programming solutions and source code you need to jump-start a state-of-the-art peer-to-peer application project. Using flow charts and line-by-line analysis of a full-scale P2P file-sharing application, they show you how to solve for typical P2P programming challenges ? and create your own state-of-the-art P2P application using Java or C#, XML, sockets, threading, ASP, and SQL Server 2000. Take an In-Depth Look at a Professional-Grade P2P Application

• A complete "discovery and look-up server" model P2P application
• Listener component that handles requests of incoming peer connections
• Server component that maintains the database required for the application
• Browser component with a user-friendly interactive interface
• Plus modules for streaming, Palm device P2P searching, and a chat client

Application tested at Dreamtech Software Research Laboratory Visit www.dreamtechsoftware.com for updates

CD-ROM Includes:

• A professional-quality P2P file-sharing application, plus add-ons
• Java 2 Software Development Kit
• Standard Edition version 1.3 for Windows Forte for Java, release 2.0, Community Edition for All Platforms
• Microsoft DirectX application programming interface SDK, version 8.0a

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About the Author

Dreamtech Software India, Inc., is a leading provider of corporate software solutions. Based in New Delhi, India, the Dreamtech software team has more than 50 years of combined software engineering experience.

Product Details

• Paperback: 380 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (November 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764549049
• ISBN-13: 978-0764549045
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,543,606 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I would give it a ZERO star rating if I could!, December 30, 2002

By A Customer

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This review is from: Peer to Peer Application Development: Cracking the Code (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

This book is more about Microsoft products than P2P technology. A full 3/4 of the book is dedicated to C#, Visual C++ and SQL Server 2000. There is only about 10 pages dedicated to Java, and that is mostly outdated and poorly written and designed Swing code.

The reviewer who claims this is the end all be all book and includes source for both languages has not read this book completely.

It contains some [bad] Java code for a client, and C# code for a client and all the server side coding ( which in their poor implementation is 99% of the functionality ) is C++ and SQL Server 2000 based.

This is nothing more than a mis-named Client/Server book, on how to write a server side application for Windows in C++ with SQL Server 2000 as a database and how to write a Java and C# client to access it.

It is ANYTHING but P2P . . .

Stay away, this is the first book I have ever returned to Amazon.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars rather a programmer's book, December 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Peer to Peer Application Development: Cracking the Code (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

If you want to know about p2p technology it is almsot a state
secret. It is rather difficult to find out any information concerning the topic. Whether it is to forestall legal attempts to close down services or rather to prevent copying of systems
I do not know.
If you want to find out about the topic of p2p networks this book will explain some of the basics.
However 90% of the volume of the book is devoted to programming of p2p networks. I assume this is a how to book for budding p2p system developers.
There is a little bit devoted to explaining the p2p basics
and the distinctions between the 4 models of p2p networks.
However if you are not or are not interested in programming the explanations are not too easy to read.
It was a helpfull book but be aware that it is primarily a how to book for programmers.
The book comes with a CD . Included in the CD is an e-book
of the complete (I believe) book. One wonders if the authors
thought out the implications of p2p sharing of the e-book or maybe they thought that programmers will buy the book for the
programs ? Maybe they thought that it was either inevitable or
would be good promotion.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very basic book with lots of filler, January 26, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Peer to Peer Application Development: Cracking the Code (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)

50% of this book is a printing of their code line by line, the whole app! (which is already on cd-rom)

The sample applications do not complile as is without errors. The book says at the beginning that the release code will be available when dot.net goes gold.. Hello? that was a year ago, and their web site still has Beta 2 code on it.

The book does not cover the more challenging topics of P2P development, such as, what to do with clients behind proxys and firewalls. (that was two stars right there)

All in all a big disappointment.