On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Duggan Kim <mdkimani@gmail.com> wrote:
I am writing a java based peer to peer application that requires remote files (pdf, text, .doc etc) in the server to be opened(run) in the client, the same way you would open a shared file in a different machine from your machine. How do I create a URL to the remote file considering that the file is not necessary contained in a shared folder, or how do you open the file via a remote File object reference?
You will need your application to do the following : 1 - A way to discover other peers 2 - A mechanism to interact with these peers (send / receive information) 3 - Read the list of 'publications' from your discovered/networked peers I suggest that you take a look at JXTA : https://jxta.dev.java.net/ which is a library that lets you do all of the above....and should be a good starting point. Ashok