Why has JXTA been abandoned? Any alternatives out there?

Question

P2p/Grid Computing seem like a promising concepts. JXTA looks like the only all in one framework for it. Is there a reason this field is so sparsely pursued?

Answer 1

Interestingly what was missing with all the P2P initiatives of the past was a motivation for a peer to stay active. Question always was why would a peer keep running a CPU draining and XML based verbosed protocols. Trust was another factor - how can I trust a peer. As a key member of the team, we introduced security. But security doesn't address trust.

To make it even worse, JXTA introduced the concept of super nodes - defeating the very concept of peer to peer.

However, not everything was that bad. JXTA provided a lots of new concepts. One being Edge Computing with JXME and JXTA sitting together - you can call it to be current day Fog computing where heavy lifting was on the JXTA node and some intelligence on the constrained JXME nodes.

Fast forward, Blockchain addressed gaps with addressing most if not all the questions that any P2P platform could not answer: trust, incentivizing peers, tamper proof and much more.

P2P is still alive :)