Comparison of JXTA and WSRF

Virtual collaboration among geographically dispersed resources, groups or organizational units requires support from their environment. The establishment, management and exploitation of dynamic, cross-organizational sharing relationship require new technology, which is independent of any proprietary technology and have backing of mainstream development and research institutes. This paper critically compares two peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols i.e. JXTA and Web services resource framework (WSRF) with respect to their effectiveness for virtual collaboration. The comparison is based on our experiences of developing a prototype for virtual organization. This paper is result of out going research to build community for efficient resource discovery.