Hi People!

Since I have at the University a small Linux box with a huge internet connection, I really would like to have a "Remote Gnutella Client TM".

I played a lot with Hagelslag (commandline and remote running GUI), but it doesn't work as nice as I want it to.

The idea I came up with was to develop a Gnutella client with a web interface.

I recently started developing Java Servlets, and I really like how they work, for example: Once a servlet is loaded, it stays loaded. This makes it possible to keep TCP connections/Files/etc... open while serving the various pages.

Another advantage of using a servlet is that there already does exist a lot Java software (for example Phex) that can be used

My questions:[list=1][*]Would there be a better method for 'remote gnutelling'?[*]Does anybody know if someone has already started such a project?[*]Would it be 'easy' to use Phex for this? (Is the GUI a main part of the application or just an user interface to use it? I started to read some code, but it's a huge project so I still have no clue how it works [*]If I would realy start working on it, should it be a seperate project or an addition to Phex?[/list=1]

Thank you for your time,

Tader

We try to separate the GUI from the main core as good as possible. Since there are other projects that are using the Phex core without GUI. In some places the separation is still not very clean, but it gets better and better in every release.

I would suggest to create a separate project but to work very closley together with us. I'm interessted in all you are doing to make Phex better. It would also be good if you try to build your framework around the Phex framework, this way you can stay on the update path. Where necessary and usefull we could talk about patching some Phex classes for you or to find a way to make it easier to use the classes.

Gregor

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