The current (June 2005) IFM code base includes a rudimentary implementation of distributed IFM search over RMI. This page describes the next version of distributed search, which is designed to run over RMI, Jini, and JXTA, along with better tool support for exposing the distributed search facilities to the user (no just command line tools).

This page is broken down into different sections, with 1 section focused on the commonalities of running distributed IFM search over different framework, and sections on the specifics of actually running the searches on each network.

Design Requirements

Multiple Concurrent Context
Dynamic/Low Coupling
Fully Auditable
Network Independent

General Design Abstractions

Entity

IFMSource
IFMSolver

Interactions

Discovery
Communication

Distributed IFM Design

Design Requirements

General Design Abstractions

Entity

Interactions

RMI Implementation

Jini Implementation

JXTA Implementation

XmlBlaster Implementation