From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web

This new edition provides a comprehensive overview of emerging distributed-systems technologies and includes many state-of-the-art infrastructures and technologies. It also offers exercises and historical contexts for each of the technologies.

Peers In A Client Server World provides a comprehensive overview of emerging peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies that have revolutionized the way we think about distributed computing and the internet. These technologies are compared to alternative solutions, most notably web services and Grid computing but also other technologies, such as client/server based systems and agent technologies. A wide range of diverse middleware and application-based technologies are covered, such as JXTA, Jini, Globus, Web services, OGSA, J2EE, Napster and Gnutella, with an emphasis given on the architecture employed and security model chosen. Each technology and its capabilities are analyzed in the context of the degree of centralization or decentralization they employ. A resulting taxonomy is created that gives the reader a context in which to consider the most advanced and broad ranging distributed systems available today, and provides them with an essential reference text for designing new distributed systems.

Comprehensive representation of the distributed systems field Takes an applied approach and describes technologies that are state-of-the-art No existing books that describe this combination of P2P, Web services and Grid technologies to this depth and understanding Retains technical aspects of successful first edition but is significantly expanded with exercises and also includes historical contexts for each of the technologies

Inhalt
Common Themes.- Discovery Protocols.- Structured Document Types.- Distributed Security Techniques.- Distributed Environments.- The Web.- Peer-2-Peer Environments.- Web Services.- Distributed Objects and Agent Technologies.- Grid Computing.- Protocols and Architectures I P2P Applications.- Gnutella.- Scalability.- Freenet.- BitTorrent.- Protocols and Architectures II Middleware.- Jini.- Jxta.- Web Services Protocols.- OGSA.- Web 2.0.- On the Horizon.- Deployment.- Distributed Object Deployment Using Jini.- P2P Deployment Using Jxta.- Web Services Deployment.- Web Deployment Using Atom.- ERRATA.