On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:47, Tim Churches wrote: > buffering, unlike the SMTP infrastructure, which handles it for you). Of > course, the Jabber protocol offers both synchronous and asynchronous > messaging, and as Horst Herb has said (elsewhere), would be a better > choice for healthcare secure messaging (with an encryption layer added).
Especially since you can easily run XML-RPC (remote procedure calls) via Jabber in the most elegant and fail proof way (including store-and-forward for remote procedure calls!). This allows sort of distributed systems even on the unreliable and slow connetions we have in most of Australia. Horst -- "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage
