Design and Development of Community Aware Distributed Content Networking Framework using JXTA

Community Information Systems (CIS)1 is the best place to share the information related to common interest of communities [1]. The requirement of better infrastructure in terms of huge storage space, computational resources and better bandwidth is the bottleneck for effective utilization of community-based systems. CIS spread over different geographical regions portrays region specific information. Networking of CIS and their distributed content resources help in development of communities through knowledge sharing, get acquainted about geographically diversified communities having similar interests and reduce the requirement of sophisticated infrastructure. The new developments in algorithms related to formation of virtual communities, distributed resource-sharing, content replication using peer-topeer techniques provides better solution for the interconnection of geographically distributed CIS. The aim of this paper is to describe the design and development of scalable, fault tolerant, community aware content networking framework, in order to support interconnection of CIS using JXTA [2] Peerto- Peer framework. Application developers can use this framework to establish a network of information systems using peer-to-peer techniques.