-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:56:17 -0600 Ryan Eatmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Scott Bolte wrote: > > Ryan Eatmon wrote: > > > >>Ok... I had a brain fart. =) > > > > > > Sure glad that never happens to me! > > > > > >>What exactly are you trying to write that requires such a lengthy > >>processing time? RPC is meant to be be instantanious response, not > >>hours/days/weeks/etc... > > > > > > I need to coordinate updates of loosely coupled, highly > > distributed hosts. I want to send messages to all the hosts > > then have them delivered, eventually, even if a host was > > down. Are there existing examples of using Jabber for this > > sort of thing? > > Open examples? Not that I know of. Closed, yes. I've done a few for > > my company. Basically, you can embed a custom namespace in a message > that will be picked up next time the receiver logs in (or immediately > if they are still online.) > > > > This application is actually a free public DNS system. The > > original infrastructure was written years ago with tightly > > integrated hosts and modest growth in mind. The next > > generation infrastructure needs to support donated hosts > > with variable reliability and limited connectivity. Could you possibly tell us more about this project? I'm very curious, as it sounds like a really good implementation of Jabber. I'm also curious though, if there's too much overhead from the Jabber protocol to make it feasible in inferior network conditions, like dialup... > > Ooo... cool. > > > > >><iq/>s are not stored offline. Only <message/>s. > > > > > > That's good to know. I can use RPC for status checks. For > > updates I'll need to switch to augmented <message/>s. > > Well... that is sort of what presence is for. Determining if the > other end is online. RPC would be useful to gather stats from the > online endpoints though. > > > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > > jdev mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://jabberstudio.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > > -- > Ryan Eatmon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://jabberstudio.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev > - -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~ido/pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAVnl+mhQsAkXAJP0RAvYjAJ9vXgVLDjE0YaGMgvIv9uctBhlXYQCgioCT +q10e0F9Flp8oh+cCGfpA9w= =J0Te -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://jabberstudio.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
