Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Anybody thought of P2P for ACS?

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Posted by John Sequeira on
I think the problem with applying p2p to most openACS sites is that the communities aren't really distributed.  Since you can host multiple separate-but-related communities on the same instance (ie greenpeace),  and easily search across them,  how likely is it that the overhead of JUXTA will pay off?

There *are* some db items that cut across sites that I'd love to see a p2p search approach for: job boards/classified ads/academic journals.  But, I don't think the concept applies to OpenACS sites in general.