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by hxr 5814 days ago
A lot of research went into building group communication tool kits like Spread and Ensemble. Today they are being used in server/cluster environments. I was playing with re-purposing one of these (JGroups) for my pet project. The toolkit implements the abstractions I need (A peer communication Channel, peer discovery etc.). It also provides various protocol stacks so I can use a different one for streaming movies vs. syncing files.