M3PS: a multi-platform P2P system based on JXTA and Java

Peer-to-Peer computing offers many attractive features, such as collaboration, self-organization, load balancing, availability, fault tolerance and anonymity. In our previous work, we implemented a synchronous P2P collaboration platform called TOMSCOP. However, the TOMSCOP was implemented only in Windows XP OS. In this work, we extend our previous work and present a multi-platform Peer-to-Peer system. The proposed system operates very smoothly in UNIX Solaris 9 OS, LINUX Suse 9.1 OS, Mac OSX, and Windows XP. In this paper, we present the design of proposed system and four application tools: info, joint draw pad, shared web browser and subaru avatar.

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