JXTA™ technology is a set of open protocols that allow any connected device on the network ranging from cell phones and wireless PDAs to PCs and servers to communicate and collaborate in a P2P manner.

JXTA peers create a virtual network where any peer can interact with other peers and resources directly even when some of the peers and resources are behind firewalls and NATs or are on different network transports.

• Interoperability - across different peer-to-peer systems and communities
• Platform independence - multiple/diverse languages, systems, and networks
• Ubiquity - every device with a digital heartbeat

• Find peers and resources on the network even across firewalls
• Share files with anyone across the network
• Create your own group of peers of devices across different networks
• Communicate securely with peers across public networks

Developer Spotlight Michel Polet, know as mpol in the JXTA Community, is located at Eschweiler near Aachen (Germany) and Brussels. He is currently spending half of his free time working with JXTA Technology, about 20 hours a week. He has recently launched project JXDBC, a proxy driver for JXTA. In 2000, Michel was a consultant programmer during the restructuring of a major Belgian bank. Although he did not know it at the time, that was his first business case for JXTA technology!

Developer Spotlight Ted Kosan, also know as tkosan on the JXTA mailing lists where he is a frequent contributor. He became a member of the JXTA Community soon after the project was announced in the Spring of 2001. He started developing code in the summer of 2003. He is the owner of the JackNet project, he is a member of the JXTA educational committee and and he is also the co-leader of the java.net Embedded Java community.