I would say you should use a mix of SOAP and XMl to for moving your data from point to point but let Java do the data processing.
I've tried getting the java agents to work in the past and unless there's been a lot of progress made, I'd avoid them. Just setup a client server / peer system.
Have 1 server that basically is just the index of the rest of the system. Then have how ever many nodes do the processing and send updates to the server. You may even want a second server that handles the distribution of the data.
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