How does Cougaar compare with JXTA?
JXTA is a Peer-to-Peer framework for distributed applications. JXTA supports peer group communications and dynamic discovery protocols. Cougaar features agent communities, which act as simple group-based communications. Service discovery within Cougaar uses a UDDI YellowPages. In the future Cougaar might explore LAN discovery protocols (such as JINI) and enhanced peer-based group communications. For now JXTA can be embedded within Cougaar as a pluggable component. As you may have noticed, our FAQ follows a similar outline to the JXTA FAQ.