On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Mickael Remond <[email protected]> wrote:
> Facebook did not build an XMPP server. They build an HTTP chat server > and are now trying to build an XMPP wrapper around it. This does not > make it an XMPP server. > They have special concept for presence (which does not make it really > realtime from what I have seen) and we will see once release if it maps > well with XMPP (which is not totally sure). Which is the exact thought I made while implementing a transport for Facebook. However this is not bad approach necessarily, since for scaling and better integration with existing systems we must stop thinking of XMPP servers as standalone things (yep, they support clustering, but I'm talking about functionality). Perhaps all Facebook is needing now is just an S2S component able to map between their http-based chat and other xmpp services... For this thing all existing XMPP servers must be reworked a lot. -- Fabio Forno, Ph.D. Bluendo srl http://www.bluendo.com jabber id: [email protected]
