In a well-publicized webcast, Sun has unveiled Project JXTA as a prototype; a next-generation network computing research project that will enable easy access to peers and resources on the rapidly emerging, multi-dimensional, expanded web. Sun also launched jxta.org, an Open Source project where developers can collaborate to evolve Project JXTA, creating innovative, distributed services and applications that allow users to quickly and easily find, retrieve, and use information.

"The Web is evolving in both depth and breadth into an 'expanded Web', which makes it challenging to efficiently communicate and access resources on the Internet," said Mike Clary, vice president, Project JXTA. "Sun is offering a unified approach to address this next phase of distributed computing, an approach that will enable users to quickly and easily 'Find it, Get it, Use it'."

As more and more content and resources migrate to the web, it's getting difficult and time consuming to naturally access information stored on multiple networks and across disparate platforms. The initial release of Project JXTA is a cross-platform Java technology-based implementation, and Sun has initiated a community project to develop a C implementation.

"Project JXTA fulfills a vision I've had for 25 years," said Bill Joy, Sun's chief scientist and co-founder. "I wanted a computing model based on the systems approach from UNIX platforms, the object-oriented, portable code capabilities from Java technology, and the universal syntax for describing portable data from XML. So, we started Project JXTA, which has become a platform independent, language agnostic, Open Source technology to enable new and innovative distributed applications."

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