From P2P to Web Services and Grids
Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-1-84628-074-0
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Provides an overview of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies that have revolutionized the way we think about distributed computing and the internet. This book compares these technologies to alternative solutions, most notably web services and Grid computing but also other technologies, such as client/server based systems and agent technologies.
Subject: Computer Science, Decentralised Computing, Distributed Objects, Distributed Systems Programming, Distributed Systems Security, Freenet, Gnutella, Grid computing, Grid services, Jini, Jxta, OGSA, Web services, distributed systems, peer to peer (P2P), security
