JXTA is a set of protocols to operate devices in a P2P fashion on the Internet.
JXTA is a set of protocols, initially designed by Sun Microsystems, to operate devices in a P2P fashion on the Internet. It aims at being universal and independent of any technologies or programming languages. These protocols have been implemented in C (see JXTA-C) and in Java (see JXSE).
In October 2010, Oracle Corporation officially confirmed that it was withdrawing from the JXTA technology. Sun Microsystems had progressively diminished its participation since 2007-2008.
Some companies are still using the JXTA-C implementation, though this part of the community has not been very active in recent years. On the other side, the JXSE community has delivered two releases of JXTA for Java in 2010 and 2011. These are now used in production by some companies, considering the significant improvements made to the code and to testing since release 2.5.
