Developing peer-to-peer applications with MDA and JXTA

Abstract

Recently, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture is being used to explore better the computing power and bandwidth of networks than a client/server architecture. In order to support the creation of P2P applications, some frameworks were proposed such as JXTA. However, large systems using P2P architecture are complex to be developed, maintained and evolved. Model Driven Architecture (MDA) can support the management of the complexity in the software development process through transformations of Platform Independent Models (PIM) into Platform Specific Models (PSM). In this paper, we apply an MDA approach to allow the development of applications based on JXTA. The JXTA implementation in Java is used to demonstrate our approach. We propose a model transformation definition from an UML model to a Java+JXTA model. In order to validate our approach, we present two case studies. © 2007 Springer.