We are designing our Application Service Provision business around distributed Code Servers and Content Servers using Slide and JXTA! The Code Servers manage the executables on User Access Servers. The Content Servers manage the content for the User Applications. We are deploying User Access Servers, Code Servers and Content Servers both within our Data Centers and for performance reasons at remote facilities including some customer facilities...so far so good, JXTA is like a dream come true after trying with JINI and CORBA and then SOAP, JXTA is right on target. I was at the P2P Conference in SF when JXTA was announced and have followed ever since.
Ok so now the question. We have almost all of our customers and customer applications delivered via a Web Browser. We want to add IM/Chat, Presence and File Sharing to our delivered Applications. We have looked at Jabber and even deployed it successfully for one of our customers....but JXTA seems a better choice for a number of reasons. We also will have JXTA and PeerGroups already and don't want to add Jabber servers and duplicate and complicate if we can do what we want/need on top of JXTA. I have read the Archive entries related to JXTA Applets. We don't want to install anything on the client's machines if we don't have to. We want it to be an option, but not a requirement, so WebStart and helper apps are options. Firewalls are not a major problem, but NAT boxes are. Installation of a Relay in the DMZ of our customers is also not a good option. We believe an Applet loaded in a Web Page that acts as a minimal client to our servers to provide IM/Chat, Presence and File Sharing is the answer. Has anybody toyed with this recently and can offer advice or share some examples? Michael Oliver CTO/Matrix Intermedia 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Office (520)574-1150 Cell (518)378-6154 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
