"All logical system of any complexity are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules" Godel's Incompleteness Theorem
Information or Disinformation: P2P traffic 60% of the Internet Traffic?
Interesting article. While we should give credit to Bittorent and other P2P applications, I am not convinced this statistics is right (in the first place how do you measure such broad traffic percentage, are we truly accounting for all available cross-bandwidth between all edge peers in the Internet, or just cross-traffic bandwidth between a few main Internet infrastructure routers). Looking at the success of YouTube, Metacafe, etc.. I have the hitch that still most of the Internet overall traffics is coming from centralized download services that are creating even greater traffic and bottlenecks :-)
Posted at 10:26AM Feb 09, 2007 by Bernard Traversat in Sun | Comments[0]
JXTA-Java SE 2.5 Beta Release coming soon!
The Jxta community is getting ready to announce the JXTA-Java SE 2.5 Beta release. It's a must release if you are a serious
JXTA developers.
Posted at 04:07PM Feb 02, 2007 by Bernard Traversat in Sun | Comments[0]
The 3D Web: Time to dump your mouse, create an avatar and learn how to use a game pad!
While everybody is talking about Web 2.0, a more silent revolution may be happening on the Web (so SL is trying to change this!) that may have a profound impact in the way we will be deploying and interacting with Web applications in the near future. Mich Wagner captured this fairly well in his article Virtual Worlds: The Next Big Thing Or Next Big Nothing?
"A generation of young people is growing up hacking and slashing their way through virtual worlds -- that's literally true in the case of World of Warcraft -- and they're going to expect a 3-D, virtual world interface for the rest of their online interaction."
As with new emerging technology the jury is still out, but a few big players like Sun and IBM are starting to take notice:
"There is something very human about visual interfaces. I almost think of text-based interfaces, including browsers, as 'narrowband' into our brains, whereas visual interfaces are 'broadband' into our brains."
So, dump your mouse, create your avatar, learn how to use a game pad (nice to be able to use both hands and more than three buttons finally :-) and join the 3D Web Virtual world with "broadband" interaction into your brain!
Posted at 05:39PM Feb 01, 2007 by Bernard Traversat in Sun | Comments[1]
Groovy + JXTA: How to make life simpler for P2P developers!
In the pure spirit of open-source development, the Groovy and JXTA communities are looking to join force to ease the development of p2p applications. For more check the following thread and feel free to jump in and join the effort. This can only be good for Groovy, JXTA and P2P developers :-)
Posted at 01:46PM Dec 21, 2006 by Bernard Traversat in Sun | Comments[0]
Project Looking Glass 1.0: A Desktop for the Emerging 3D Web
Posted at 10:47AM Dec 20, 2006 by Bernard Traversat in Sun | Comments[41]
Glassfish + JXTA = SHOAL
Project Shoal implements a novel way to cluster multiple Glassfish appserver instances using the JXTA technology. Leveraging the JXTA self-organizing and dynamic group networking infrastructure, Project Shoal allows administrators to easily deploy and dynamically group Glassfish appserver instances into a cluster. Project Shoal highly-decentralized implementation removes the traditional cluster Master single point of failures and control by decentralizing the Master function accross all instances. Any instance can take over Master responsability, if the existing Master fails. New instances can be added dynamically on-demand enabling massive-scale appserver clustering deployment.
For more on Project Shoal, check the project web page and Shreedar's blog. Open Source at its best as both the Glassfish and JXTA communities collaborated to create this innovative appserver clustering implementation.
Posted at 12:51PM Nov 09, 2006 by Bernard Traversat in Sun | Comments[1]
Could it be that Google Index is loosing its mind?
I have been for a while wondering what will happen when Google's centralized billion indexes get out of waxes and start to return random results. How can you fix or recover this beast without shutting it down?
I have been using Google Alerts service for some time:
What are Google Alerts?
Google Alerts are emails automatically sent to you when there are new
Google results for your search terms.
This alert service has been working quiet well for me. So, you cannot really be sure how much scrawling in the deep Web Google is doing. But, at least when you get a new alert, you feel the service is working and is quiet useful. To my surprise over the last week or so, I am now receiving a bunch of new alerts for pages that are not really really news! I just received an alarm for this page that was published more than 4 year ago.
Google Web Alert for: jxta
ONJava.com -- Getting Started with JXTA, Part 1
Learn how to get started with JXTA in this book excerpt series.
This as-it-happens Google Alert is brought to you by Google.
Could it be? While a centralized index has great advantage, it also has one big Achilles heel. It's a single point of failure. In contrast, the Internet uses a decentralized index to maintain IP route information that is a quiet resilient. I have been wondering if it will be better to use a more decentralized search indexing infrastructure for the Internet. I can see now a bunch of our new black box containers acting as decentralized content indexing routers as today IP routers.
Hopefully I am the only one seeing these false alerts, and this just a bug where a few pages are incorrectly republished. If not, we may have reached an interesting inflexion point.
Posted at 06:13PM Nov 03, 2006 by Bernard Traversat in Sun | Comments[0]
The Third Dimension: Enter it today, it is called LG3D.
While the world is waiting for MS Vista (may be next year!), the OpenSolaris 3D desktop system Looking Glass is already available today, and catching significant developer mindshare on Java.net. Project Looking Glass is of course an open-source project, and is also available on Windows, Linux and soon on Mac OS.
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Posted at 04:20PM Aug 11, 2006 by Bernard Traversat in Sun | Comments[3]
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