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This paper introduces JaDE, a P2P support for the
development of Distributed Virtual Environments that improves
DVE scalability through the notion of Area of Interest. JaDE
denes a set of protocols to support both the active entities
and passive objects of the DVE. The state of passive objects
is replicated on a set of peers to increase the reliability and
the responsiveness of the application. Since passive objects may
be concurrently updated by the active entities of the DVE, a
novel consistency protocol is dened together with a set of
mechanisms to guarantee the persistence of passive objects in
a DVE environment. The paper presents an implementation
of JaDE which exploits the JXTA distributed platform and
shows how the JaDE functionalities may be supported by JXTA
protocols. A set of preliminary experimental results are discussed.