Remember there is strong pro XMPP voices here too; http://www.process-one.net/en/blogs/article/xwave_a_tribute_to_google_wave_team/
I'm not sure who is right on a technical sense, but there is working xmpp based federations out there, are their any based on http? Regarding the c/s protocol - it makes somewhat sense anyway if it was more or less the same as the server/server one, seeing as they both basically have to exchange the same information to keep the document in sync. As I suggested on the recent poll,however, I think separating out the wiab webclient and using a lib for c/s protocol would help a lot. That way , even if different choices are made for the protocol later on, its just the lib that has to be changed. People could thus make clients with the protocol itself abstracted away. ~~~~~~ Reviews of anything, by anyone; www.rateoholic.co.uk Please try out my new site and give feedback :) On 10 April 2011 00:13, Michael MacFadden <[email protected]> wrote: > Nelson, > > There has been large debate on XMPP in wave. The general complaint is that > the protocol is to verbose. My two cents are that one of the main points of > XMPP was a verbose XML human readable protocol with standard extension > mechanisms. However wave uses protobufs and base64 encodes all the data in > the XMPP stanzas. The data exchanged by wave is not human readable, xml > based, or part of the XMPP standard. That defeats the purpose of using the > XMPP standard in the first place. In my opinion this basically relegates > XMPP to just a delivery envelope, and one that adds on a lot of overhead. > > Also XMPP's dependance on long lived TCP connections to maintain the xml > stream, there are difficulties providing services to clients that are > frequently disconnected. For these reasons there is talk of adding a "raw" > http transfer mechanism for federation. Until that is worked out I would > hesitate to entertain the idea of injecting XMPP in to the c/s protocol. > > ~Michael > > On Apr 9, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Nelson Silva wrote: > >> XMPP over websockets was proposed as a draft >> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moffitt-xmpp-over-websocket-00) and >> ejabberd now has a sample module to support it: >> >> http://blog.superfeedr.com/xmpp-over-websockets/ >> >> Wouldn't it be great to use XMPP for both C/S and federation ? or is it too >> verbose ? >> >> Just wanted to share this with the list. >> >> Regards, >> >> Nelson > >
