Wave Issue 0306 3/7/03 Article 1-02

***Project JXTA Passes 1 Million Downloads, Releases Version 2.0
(March 4)

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that more than one million
developers have downloaded Project JXTA from the Sun Web site.
JXTA is an open source, standards-based, peer-to-peer technology
that supports collaboration and communication on any networked
device. The JXTA community is releasing version 2.0 now. Sun also
announced that the National Association of Realtors and the
National Association of Convenience Stores are implementing JXTA-
based applications and that InView Software and Internet Access
Methods have released commercial products based on JXTA.

Sun stated that this milestone highlights the mounting adoption
of JXTA for peer-to-peer application and service deployment. The
open source community of more than 12,700 members has evolved
Project JXTA into an open set of XML-based protocols for creating
peer-to-peer style network computing applications and services.
JXTA Version 2.0 will offer enhanced scalability and performance.

InView Software and Internet Access Methods are part of a range
of companies that are expected to release commercial products
that leverage the collaborative strengths of the JXTA platform
this year.

InView Software developed its Momentum application using JXTA
technology as its peer-to-peer communications infrastructure
layer. Momentum enables file sharing and collaboration between
users on the Solaris Operating Environment, Linux and Windows
workstations. Users create workspaces containing files that they
would like to share, and then invite other users to join that
workspace. Momentum users can work collaboratively on documents
such as drawings, charts, or timelines.

Internet Access Methods built IAM-Developing, a collaborative
Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), using JXTA
technology. IAM- Developing works across multiple plaforms. The
product enables multiple developers to work securely on the same
piece of source code, and see modifications made by others in
real time across corporate firewalls.

About Project JXTA

JXTA is an open, generalized peer-to-peer platform that allows
any connected device on the network to communicate and
collaborate. Sun Microsystems developed and released JXTA to the
open source community in April 2001. JXTA can be applied across
multiple platforms including the Java 2 Platform, Standard
Edition (J2SE), Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), C
language, and others. Any device on the network including cell
phones, two-way pagers, electronic sensors, PDAs, desktop
computers and servers, can be connected using JXTA.

Sun's technical consulting arm, Sun Professional Services, is
helping organizations leverage JXTA to deliver services to the
Web, and to engineer architectures to support pervasive access.