Introduced by Sun Microsystems, Inc., the award winning JXTA technology is a set of open, generalized peer-to-peer protocols that allows any connected device (cell phone to PDA, PC to server) on the network to communicate and collaborate. Project JXTA is an open source effort that involved the developer community from the start.

JXTA technology enables developers to create innovative distributed services and applications. JXTA technology is used to create applications and services that enable people to:

• Collaborate on projects from anywhere using any connected device
• Share compute services, such as processor cycles or storage systems, regardless of where the systems or the users are physically located
• Communicate with colleagues across the world using a peer-to-peer network
• Share files and information to distributed locations on the network, not just to local hard drives
• Connect game systems so that multiple people in multiple locations can play the same game interactively