Philip Van Hoof wrote: > Hi there, > > I am the maintainer of a project called Gnome Clipboard Manager. > This is an application (that is under heavy development) that > handles managing your clipboards/selections, etc etc. It collects > the selections that you copied on a clipboard shelf (items). > > One of it's planned features is networking support. We want to > build in a feature to secure transfer items in XML format to > another host (which must be running gnome clipboard manager > too). The other host can then accept or don't accept the items > from the sender. > > We have plans to use Jabber's framework for this. Regretfully > I am not an instant messaging-user at all. A long time a go > I used to use ICQ but thats all.. So I am a bit lost in this > world :). > > My questions > - Where do I start? Some pointers to documentation? I prefer > working examples/opensource|freesoftware applications. > - Is it a good solution to use Jabber for this application? > -> sending a bunch of information to another host running > the same application (peer to peer). We want to use XML. > We don't want a server. Each client can recive and send.
Jabber is a client->server architecture, not a peer to peer architecture. I mean, obviously you could implement a server on every machine... but why do you want to use jabber particularly? What advantages are you looking for it to provide? Why not just write a little homebrew protocol? Obviously there are advantages to using Jabber but most of them are related to the client-server model... it doesn't really make sense to use the jabber protocol for a brief peer-to-peer connection. > - Are there other things that I should know before I begin? > > > More information about the application : > http://gcm.sourceforge.net Julian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beta4 Productions (http://www.beta4.com) _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
