[JDEV] Misc Status..

[Ryan Eatmon]

> > May I ask why it's all done through the server?
> > 
> > I mean, for users accessing chat from a browser, I can understand using the
> > server.
> > 
> > But for users doing 1-to-1 or group chat, it doesn't make sense to do
> > everything through the server when for 1-to-1, peer to peer is fine, and for
> > groups, there is a good chance that one of them has a connection fast enough
> > to server all the others.
> 
> Actually it isn't fine. People behind firewalls and proxies, for instance,
> have no way of being able to chat with other people.

There was a discussion a little while back about XML-RPC on the Perl
mailing lists.  This is a protocol that basically allows you to send XML
streams across HTTP using a pull and not a push method.  So in a future
rev of Jabber, XML-RPC might allow us to do IM across a firewall.

And all of this might be possible because Jabber is server based and the
messages are queued up there until the client asks for them.

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Ryan Eatmon                reatmon at ti.com
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Mixed Signal Product Development EDA Team