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\begin{abstract}

The goal of this master thesis is to equip Eiffel with a peer-to-peer framework.
The well-known JXTA protocol was chosen for that purpose.

\vampeer{} aims to be an Eiffel binding for JXTA, currently offering the
essential services used in a typical edge peer. It thus allows to discover
remote peers and to communicate with other peers through a TCP transport.
Implementing the discovery service, it is possible to query for local and remote
entities. The library is fully compatible with the latest JXTA JSE reference
implementation.

\end{abstract}
