EFOX – FILESHARING WITH WEB SERVICES

Web Services and Peer-to-Peer are two concepts for distributed computing which gained much attention within the academic community. The former one was developed with the intention to provide interoperability within heterogeneous environments. The latter one offers a paradigm where resources are shared among participants of a network and the need for central components is minimized. This paper presents the results of a project bringing these two concepts together by means of a filesharing system. In this context different Web Service standards are analyzed with respect to their usability for Peer-to-Peer computing