P2P Structure

[Chrigui]

is it possible to have a specific team connected only... ? i mean i have a 20 employees that i share with my information but i realy don't know how i make my member group invisible.. i think this would be realy good to have. also can you explain to me how the back server works ? because i did a little research and i have found many p2p structures..

thank you. and this is the jobe of hero's .

[Franco Dal Molin]

Hi Chrigui, thanks for your feedback.

A related question was posted/answered here: http://community.collanos.com/index.php/topic,16.msg36.html#msg36.

This should (at least partially) also answer your question. If it does not well enough, please elaborate a bit more and get back to me with more questions. I'll be happy to provide additional information.

With regards to the "back server" functionality, we do have currently two services running centrally: (1) The so-called "Rendezvous" Service (see also above link to the other post) is responsible for keeping dynamic lists of "who is currently online" and "where". (2) The so-called "Relay" Service is needed to help route traffic between any two peers, if one (or both) of the peers are behind firewalls with only Port 80 / HTTP protocol enabled.

BTW, a great new body of knowledge is the following book: Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) (Paperback)
by Ralf Steinmetz (Editor), Klaus Wehrle (Editor).

[Chrigui]

thank you for your fast reply,

i guess this is a good explanation i also figured that collanos is using JXAT in the backend and its a good system its very flexible.

also, its mentioned in some web sites that your system is open source but i couldn't find the sources yet,

do you have any CVS or ftp for that or am missing something.

thank you,.

[Franco Dal Molin]

Your are right, we use JXTA for the basic transport layers. Good to see you know the P2P space!

Actually, we are not open source. We use several OSS components, but we are not ourselves open. Our basic version is free and will stay free. Maybe some Web site interpreted this wrongly. It would be interesting to find out where this was and have them correct this information. Can you remember where you saw this?

Still, if you like the idea of getting more involved, why don't you send me a private message or email at franco.dalmolin AT collanos DOT com. I'll be happy to discuss if we can work together is some ways.... Thx :-)

[Chrigui]

thank you for your replay 1st.

we i toke your email and i will contact you as soon as i see how we can work things out.

and i hope we can work something together.

have a good day.

[Chrigui]

i have been playing with the software and i came up with new ideas i am testing today.

i will update you guys when i am done.

[Gil Heiman]

Thanks!

We're always open to suggestions and feedback.

Looking forward to it.

Gil
Team-Collanos