(please excuse the x-post and please narrow if you prefer) I'm working with XMPP as a possible carrier for 'remote control' TV/video systems. Mostly I'm looking at media-centre style apps, but since so much is now happening in the browser (flash, html5 etc), I've been experimenting with Strophe.js and BOSH too for connecting a smartphone XMPP client to a video player running in a Web page.
I would also love to be able to use a 2-way XMPP to this kind of video-playing content in an OpenSocial app. Since this would probably mean even more hackery (for x-domain access to a BOSH/XMPP service), I thought it best to ask on the OpenSocial and XMPP/Social lists first. So - is anyone doing XMPP/BOSH messaging from within OpenSocial apps? Does / will OpenSocial offer any proxying services that might help here? Has anyone made this sort of thing work persuasively? Thanks for any pointers, Dan ps. BOSH is http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0206.html ' This specification defines how the Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) technology can be used to transport XMPP stanzas. The result is an HTTP binding for XMPP communications that is useful in situations where a device or client is unable to maintain a long-lived TCP connection to an XMPP server.'
