Further to this:

On 10 Dec 2010, at 03:17, Max Bossino wrote:

> Having said all of this, there is an ongoing debate as to whether we should 
> provide a custom messaging system (as the one just described) at all. 
> An argument for a custom system is that, in the future, we could integrate it 
> with the rest of the application by, for example, allowing links to resources 
> within a Workplace (which could span anything from a reference to a note to 
> an invitation to a video conference session). It also reduces dependencies on 
> other libraries.
> Arguments against it include the fact that there exist several open standards 
> for messaging which we should not need to override and, along these lines, 
> that we would simply be reinventing the wheel when we could, instead, tie the 
> framework in to some other backend.

Alan raises the excellent point that the integration could be accomplished 
without a custom system.

Thoughts? :)

Regards,

Max
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