Writing a bittorent enabled java application
August 26th, 2007
The type of traffic distribution on the Internet today is quite different from the type you might have encountered only a few years ago. In the past, the vast majority of internet bandwidth was used to transfer character streams (in most cases HTML) over either HTTP or HTTPS. This trend has changed over the past few years, with a great deal of bandwidth (33 to 50 percent by some estimates) now being used to distribute large files over peer-to-peer connections. BitTorrent is one of the more popular protocols being used for peer-to-peer file transfers, and enabling your Java applications to use this protocol has never been easier.
