April 30, 2002
Peer-to-Peer NuggetsJ.P. Morgenthal explains industry machinations in the world of distributed archiJohn Reitano
Have you ever wanted to roll your own Napster? J.P. Morgenthal, CTO of Akimbo, a real-time communications software provider, explained the basics of doing so in his class covering the use of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) to expose and invoke methods on remote machines. Unfortunately, Morgenthal was not able to fully execute the examples he had planned to show, because his machine was misconfigured.
Still, there were some nuggets. Morgenthal noted that Metcalfe's law—the value of the network rises as the square of its size—applies only to contributing nodes. With easy-to-install servers like JBoss and Tomcat, and easy-to-use protocols like SOAP and WSDL, he predicted more devices on the network will become value-adding first-class citizens of the Net.
Intriguing Industry Machinations
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