Open Source Networking Software

SocketTest - powerful and small software tool for socket testing. It can create both TCP and UDP client or server. It can be used to test any server or client that uses TCP or UDP protocol to communicate.

JPPF makes it easy to parallelize computationally intensive tasks and execute them on a Grid.

A distributed, peer-to-peer, server-less communication & messaging solution for JAVA (JMS), C++ and .NET applications, integrates with JBoss, WebLogic & WebSphere. Offers guaranteed delivery, security and transactions. Supports TCP, SSL & HTTP protocols.

rshd is a multithreaded daemon service that listens for connections on port 514 (tcp port for the shell/cmd protocol), runs commands passed by clients and sends back the results.

This project is meant to provide ISDN CAPI 2.0 services (like fax)over a TCP/IP based network. A server (Win32/Linux) can share his ISDN cards with Clients (Win32/Linux) in the LAN.

The TclSOAP package provides a mechanism to bind Tcl command procedures to remote procedure calls using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and XML-RPC over HTTP. Both client and server code is provided.

YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build search the internet (www and ftp) or to create a search portal for others (internet or intranet). The scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users and can index billions of web pages. In p2p mode it is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the distributed index.

IIOP.NET allows a seamless interoperation between .NET, CORBA and J2EE distributed objects. This is done by incorporating CORBA/IIOP support into .NET, leveraging the remoting framework.

Two way communication from any Excel, PowerPoint, Word application to Linux. The Brain is a custom TCP server, running under Linux, capable of accepting multiple connections from VBA objects and redistributing or storing the information in real-time.

isectd is a middleware daemon that provides many-to-many client-to-server connectivity. Supports multiplexing requests to multiple server processes over IP networks.

Reliable group communication based on IP multicast and configurable protocol stack

Infranet is a system that attempts to circumvent web censorship by allowing clients to surreptitiously request sensitive content via cooperating Web servers distributed across the global Internet.

The purpose of the project is to develop a portable programming framework that facilitates distributed and multi-threaded programming for C++, Java, and Python. MADARA was originally developed as an agent-based middleware specifically for real-time, distributed artificial intelligence, but is now more general purpose for distributed timing, control, knowledge and reasoning, and quality-of-service. MADARA is composed of several tools and middleware, and the main entry point into the system is the Knowledge and Reasoning Language (KaRL) Engine, which provides a real-time scripting language for nanosecond execution times hooked into a flexible transport layer for distributed reasoning. The KaRL engine also supports object-oriented C++, Java, and Python programming through Containers, classes that provide abstractions and references for variable location within the KaRL Knowledge Base. This project is currently in process of being ported from http://madara.googlecode.com.

Hermes is a P2P middleware. It's not a framework, but it's a shell over the existing frameworks. This shell is made in such a fashion that it's possible to the app developer to change the underlying framework without any changes to his app code.

Open, fast, robust grid for distributing computing, processes etc. A great alternative to overpriced commercial products such as DataSynapse. Not constrained by standards: contribute to invent new grid computing.

NetProg is an API in C language allowing an homogeneous programming of communicating applications on many operating systems. It covers all the need for applications that requires complex way of exchanging data in synchronous or asynchronous mode. Based on messages for exchanging data between clients and servers, it, moreover, access databases or files with the same message modelling.

OmniSockets is an open message-based network interface which simplifies the development of distributed Java applications. It extends the standard Java network classes to provide a large degree of automation for connection and message handling.

This project will provide tools that leverage WS-CDL and Pi Calculus to build more robust Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). The tools are now released (and supported) through JBoss Tools (version > 3.2): http://www.jboss.org/tools

Subether is a p2p network system that allows applications to find each other to make use of peering resources. Included is a distcc application. I'm trying to make the worlds largest compiler.

distDES is a Java RMI-based application which manages load balancing on heterogeneous clusters. Development will extend the theoretical initial implementation to include clustered Rainbow Table generation and encryption algorithm collision detection.

Active Networking provides a framework in which executable code within data packets can execute upon intermediate network nodes. The goal of this research is to develop active networks that are capable of predicting their own behavior and to use this ca

Generic clustering/load-balancing platform (over a LAN or internet) using java based P2P Aorta workers that execute java "tasklets". Various tasklets can be implemented to solve fractals, process images, render webpages, crack RSA "brute force".

Note: There is a successor of AsyncWcfLib: https://github.com/steforster/Remact.Net AsyncWcfLib is a software library for distributed computing based on Microsoft WCF. AsyncWcfLib is a lightweight message bus bridging Windows and Linux by using the .NET Framework or Mono. It supports callback based asynchrony as well as the new async-await pattern available in .NET 4.5. AsyncWcfLib supports threadsafety through an actor based programming model. Actors are loosly coupled system units interacting by passing messages. Message objects are passed inside a process between actors running on different threads. Also, messages may be passed between actors running on different processes, hosts and operating systems. The library is designed for configuration free, asynchronous messaging. A router application is included. It discovers actors by their name on any linked host, even when host name resolution is not possible because of routing- or operating system limitations.

Bionanny is a tool for Web Services providers. It allows to monitor other Web Services. It can intercept requests incoming from clients, pass it to the destination Web Service and log number of requests and elapsed time spend by services.

BitDHT is a LGPL'd general purpose C++ Distributed Hash Table library. It is designed to take hassle out over creating your own DHT. BitDHT is compatible with bitttorrent's DHT and can leverage this network to bootstrap your own personal DHT.