JXTA™ technology is a set of open protocols that allow any connected device on the network ranging from cell phones and wireless PDAs to PCs and servers to communicate and collaborate in a P2P manner.

JXTA peers create a virtual network where any peer can interact with other peers and resources directly even when some of the peers and resources are behind firewalls and NATs or are on different network transports.

• Interoperability - across different peer-to-peer systems and communities
• Platform independence - multiple/diverse languages, systems, and networks
• Ubiquity - every device with a digital heartbeat

• Find peers and resources on the network even across firewalls
• Share files with anyone across the network
• Create your own group of peers of devices across different networks
• Communicate securely with peers across public networks

Company Spotlight WiredReach is a universal content sharing platform built on a set of open standards and technologies (JXTA, XMPP, Eclipse, RDF, and RSS) that allows users to selectively share content with others in a completely decentralized and secure manner. The term "content" itself is very loosely defined in the platform, and it can include things like presence, blogs, bookmarks, documents, calendars, music, photos... virtually any type of social media.

Developer Spotlight At the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens, Alexander Baxevanis (supervised by Prof. Timos Sellis and Dr. Theodore Dalamagas) is working on his thesis project, RDF-P2P-Sim, a platform for building and experimenting with Schema-Based Peer-to-Peer networks. This kind of Peer-to-Peer network incorporates advanced data management facilities and enables efficient data organization and searching.