RE: [architecture] Project proposal from Tarragona University (Spain)

["Carles Pairot" <carles.pairot@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Here go our 2 cents ;-)

> Page 6. The first paragraph pushs me to question the P2P protocol
> mentionned in the paper. Is it Java independant ?

Not at the moment. However, our generic architecture may permit using
different underlying overlay network substrates.

> Page 6. How one can assert that P2P communications will happen only on
> server-side, and not between clients and servers ?

In fact, in our infrastructure peers are both clients and servers. P2P
communication in SNAP can be server side (P2P clustering), but also between
clients and servers (SNAP client proxy). For further information, we are
currently working on a paper which will be published soon.

> Page 9. While thinking about connection with ObjectWeb softwares, you
> might be interested by CAROL layer as it is a way to abstract
> communication and to replace one communication implementation by another
> one.

Indeed! We are very interested in the CAROL layer, since we could abstract
our Dermi P2P object middleware (inspired in Java RMI) to use CAROL. We will
study that point.

> My 2 cents.
>
> Any other opinion/point of view ?
>
> Dominique

In the next few months, we are going to publish more information about the
SNAP project which I am sure will answer many open questions.

Greetings,

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Carles Pairot
Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics

Laboratory 144
Campus Sescelades
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Avinguda dels Països Catalans, 26
43007 Tarragona. Spain.

e-mail..: carles.pairot@xxxxxxx
http://www.etse.urv.es/~cpairot
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