Hi, even the federation demo during the workshop failed because of some XMPP madness :-) It is simply too complicated to setup and use and not as widely deployed as XMPP-enthusiasts might believe.
Furthermore, Wave is mainly sending base64 encoded ProtoBufs via XMPP. If you look very very closely at the current wave protocol, you will find out that wave (ab-)uses XMPP as a very dump transportation protocol. Except for discovery, there is little that XMPP provides to wave besides shipping bytes from A to B. So the "out of the box functionality" argument is not really true IMHO. To underpin my argument: For the HTTP federation protocol we just had to re-do the discovery. Everything else is basically unchanged. The fact that we could replace XMPP with HTTP rather easily shows that wave did not make any usage of specific XMPP features. XMPP is not good as a general purpose transport protocol. HTTP is. Greetings Torben 2010/11/17 Dave butlerdi <[email protected]> > I really am having a difficult time understanding the aversion to XMPP. It > adds so much > functionality out of the box, is widely accepted and brings with it a large > number of > potential adopters. > > Why not just get the project up as close to what was there and then sub > project the other transports. > > -- > Regards > > Dave Butler > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wave Protocol" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<wave-protocol%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en. > -- --------------------------- Prof. Torben Weis Universitaet Duisburg-Essen [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
