On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 12:55, Joanne wrote:
> "Peter Saint-Andre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:30:59AM -0800, Joanne wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Joanne,It's good to see folks from Jambotech on the list -- I recall
> > some involvement from people there a few years ago. BTW, coding
> > questions belong on this list, not JADMIN (that's for server
> > administration), so no need to cross-post.
> > 
> > > (1) message queuing/processing
> > > It seems that jabber's queuing mechanism is only dependent on a a client's 
> > > "online" status. If a client is offline, jabber will automatically queue the 
> > > messages in an offline store. But as soon as the client's online presence is 
> > > detected, jabber will start "pushing" all queued messages to it automatically. 
> > > Assuming our jabber client had no queuing mechanism, we would have to block 
> > > while processing each message. Would this block->process type of method work 
> > > well within the jabber framework in order to take advantage of its built in 
> > > queuing mechanism? I wrote a simple client to test this type of processing and 
> > > on the surface it appears to work, but I was just wondering if anyone might see 
> > > other factors/issues/caveats I might not be considering before I choose this 
> > > type of implementation.
> > 
> > First, you may be confusing "Jabber" wiht specific implementations. Most
> > server implementations will do offline queueing as you describe,
> > but that's a matter of implementation and configuration. Also, the
> > message flood that you refer to on login can be addressed with the
> > protocol defined in JEP-0013.
> 
> We're specifically using jabberd 1.4.3 as provided from the jabber.org site with no 
> modifications. Based on this implementation, it appears the offline queueing is 
> active by default. I also took a look at JEP-0013 yesterday, but is that something 
> that is supported out of the box? I guess I'm a little confused about what JEPs 
> actually represent. Ideally, it appears to have solved my message "flooding" 
> concerns, but how can I configure jabberd to operate according to this protocol. 
> Also, are there any issues with just blocking on my message processing loop so that 
> I don't handle any incoming messages before finishing the message I'm currently 
> processing? If I can implement this, the message flooding becomes a non-issue, 
> right? 

AFAIK, neither jabberd 1.4.3 nor jabberd2.0 support JEP-0013 yet. But
jabberd2.0 will do so before jabberd 1.4.3 (if the latter ever does).

JEPs are specifications published and in some cases approved within the
Jabber standards process: <http://www.jabber.org/jeps/>. Everything in
the Jabber world revolves around the protocols we use.

> > I probably missed your previous messages to the list -- what kind of
> > application are you trying to write?
> 
> We're planning on implementing A2A communication between a java-based jabber client 
> app that runs on our web server and a another server-side jabber client C/C++ app. 
> So all interaction over the jabberd transport is strictly within our internal server 
> network. We currently have a jabber client that has built-in message queueing 
> abilities, but we have discovered reliability issues and difficulties in 
> scalability. So we'd like to implement a more simplified client by removing its 
> queue mechanism & extra threading, but this means offloading that process to jabberd 
> -- which seems logical enough since it already has queueing capability. The only 
> issue becomes controlling the flow of messages to client from the queue, which I can 
> only do by blocking within my client's message event loop.

It seems to me that a component would meet your needs more fully, built
with something like JSO: <http://jso.jabberstudio.org/>.

Peter


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