Java Remote Desktop (jrDesktop) is a cross-platform software for remote desktop control, remote assistance and desktop sharing. jrDesktop is useful for home networking, helpdesk, system administration and collaboration. jrDesktop is an open source software licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).

jrdesktop uses RMI (Remote Method Invocation) with SSL/TLS to establish a secured connection between the viewer and the server.

jrdesktop Features:
1. Can work over Internet.
2. Support for ID numbers as in TeamViewer.
3. NAT and Firewall traversal.
4. Good compression ratio.
5. Low bandwidth consumption.
6. Refreshing is faster now.
7. Using UDP instead of RMI/TCP.
8. Simple chat application.
9. Can run remote commands.

What's next
1. Session recoding/playback.
2. Better file transfer.
3. Add remote shell.
4. Internationalization (supports of other languages).
5. Sharing only a specific user defined region or window.
6. Full support of Vista and Windows 7.
7. Build a complete support and helpdesk solution
8. Make it better than other commercial products such as TeamViewer

You may run from command line
Usage: java -jar jrdesktop.jar [options]
Commands:
server | viewer start server (or viewer) using default parameters.
server | viewer [options] customized start of server (or viewer).
pwd-gen password generation utility.
--version | -v display version information.
--help | -? display usage information.

Beside the basic functions that comes with a classical remote desktop software such as taking screen shots, transferring mouse and keyboard events, jrDesktop comes with many additional features like multisessions, file transfer, clipboard synchronization, reverse connection, web client and proxy support and more.

jrDesktop comes with a graphical user interface that supports many themes and a tray icon that provides ease of access to main functions.

jrDesktop can be deployed in many formats, such as
1. A standalone application
2. An applet embedded in a web page
3. A Java Web Start application or applet
4. A multi-threaded HTTP server
5. A Windows service and/or a *nix daemon
6. A Windows portable application
7. A Mozilla Firefox extension

Both server and viewer come in one tiny file, no installation is required.
Because jrDesktop is 100 % built on java; it can run on many operating systems such as Windows, Solaris OS, Linux and Mac OS.

Launching jrDesktop can be customized by many command line arguments and applet parameters, also server and viewer configuration profiles can be saved for a future usage.

jrDesktop supports also many graphical features such as image resizing, partial extraction and encoding, color depth selection and JPEG compression.

Communication on jrDesktop is established using its own RMI-based protocol and secured with SSL/TLS encryption protocols.

Requirements:
* Java

The license of this software is Free, you can free download and free use this remote access software.