Miller, you forgot to say that PD is *open-source*, while MAX/MSP is not. *And* that PD is free, while MAX/MSP costs money. *And* that MAX/MSP does not have netsend/netreceive, AFAIK...
there are Max udp send and receive objects available at: http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OSC/clients/max-objs.html
is anything similar available for jmax?
cheers,