- From: Lucas Gonze <lucas@gonze.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 16:18:27 -0400
- To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
WorldOS is a framework for distributed applications similar to Freenet or Gnutella. The recent announcement of a portal based on Gnutella, Infrasearch, shows that there are a number of useful tools that can be created using this new technology. This framework enables the creation of many more such tools. The implementation is an application server with support for peer routing in hosted applications. The design uses a new protocol distinguished by pluggable transports, XML message content, and asynchronous messaging. The protocol is lightweight and simple. It may be possible to extend Gnutella and Freenet to do other kinds of jobs, but I believe that they are too application-specific for general purpose work. WorldOS is comparable to a web server; Gnutella/Freenet are comparable to applications with some code to perform web communications as needed. Though the architecture of the system is in place, the implementation is very raw. WorldOS is free software under the terms of the Gnu General Public License. The homepage for the WorldOS project is at www.worldos.org.
Received on Friday, 2 June 2000 16:24:26 UTC