Tonight, the Project JXTA <http://www.jxta.org> Board of Directors
invites you to attend a Project JXTA Engineering Meeting to be held at
*Hilton San Francisco <http://www.sanfrancisco.hilton.com>*, 333
O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 from 7pm to 10pm PST in room
Continental 8/9. This meeting has been scheduled coincide with IETF 56(*)
The purpose of this meeting is to provide a forum for face to face
technical discussions related to the future of the JXTA Peer-to-Peer
Protocols and the Project JXTA Reference Implementations. Over the last
year we have made significant progress in stablizing the JXTA Reference
Implementations and improving the performance. The J2SE Reference
Implementation is now in a state upon which real world applications can
be deployed with a signficant amount of confidence in the robustness of
the environment. During the course of this work many ideas for
improvement have been put forward and much experience has been gained.
It is hoped that this meeting we be the beginning of a new round of
active discussion within the Project JXTA engineering community over the
next steps to be taken.
This meeting will not replace discussion on the mailing lists
<http://www.jxta.org/project/www/maillist.html>. In fact, it is hoped
that with network access available in the meeting space that we will be
able to involve interested community members who are unable to attend in
person. All presentations will be posted to the JXTA.ORG web site prior
to the meeting via a link from the home page.
The forum of the meeting will be a series of short presentations on a
set of related topics by one or more experts drawn from the community
and the Sun engineering team. After each set of presentations the floor
will be opened for questions and discussion. After the meeting the
discussions will be continued on the dev(_at_)jxta(_dot_)org mailing list.
Proposed topics for include:
* Review: Where are we now? (J2SE, J2ME, C, ...)
* Formalizing the JXTA Protocol Specification Process
* Security implementations
* Alternative Peer Group implementations to demonstrate the
flexibility of the JXTA architecture. (One size does not fit all
needs.)
* Quality of Service extensions
* Simplifying the Application level JXTA API to ease adoption.
(perhaps by wrapping JXTA with the BSD Sockets API and/or Java
Sockets API.)
* JXTA Peer Groups without Rendezvous Peers
* JXTA and Web Services
* JXTA and IPv6
* Performance enhancements
Please contact Jeffrey Altman <jaltman(_at_)jxta(_dot_)org> if you have
questions.
We hope you will join us.
- The Project JXTA Board
(*) This meeting is not an IETF event. The meeting is being held in
conjunction with IETF 56 <http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-56.html> to
provide an opportunity for cross-participation between the Project JXTA
and IETF communities.