Future Internet, Vol. 15, Pages 305: Entering the Metaverse from the JVM: The State of the Art, Challenges, and Research Areas of JVM-Based Web 3.0 Tools and Libraries

Future Internet, Vol. 15, Pages 305: Entering the Metaverse from the JVM: The State of the Art, Challenges, and Research Areas of JVM-Based Web 3.0 Tools and Libraries

Future Internet doi: 10.3390/fi15090305

Authors: Vlad Bucur Liviu-Cristian Miclea

Web 3.0 is the basis on which the proposed metaverse, a seamless virtual world enabled by computers and interconnected devices, hopes to interact with its users, but beyond the high-level project overview of what Web 3.0 applications try to achieve, the implementation is still down to low-level coding details. This article aims to analyze the low-level implementations of key components of Web 3.0 using a variety of frameworks and tools as well as several JVM-based languages. This paper breaks down the low-level implementation of smart contracts and semantic web principles using three frameworks, Corda and Ethereum for smart contracts and Jeda for semantic web, using both Scala and Java as implementing languages all while highlighting differences and similarities between the frameworks used.