[JDEV] Jabber Printing Services

[Jacob O'Reilly]

Yes indeed.  It makes a good distributed middleware.

Especially with encryption, authentication, etc., it could really add value
as well as provide a communications mechanism.

-----Original Message-----
From: mrugger at lexmark.com <mrugger at lexmark.com>
To: jdev at jabber.org <jdev at jabber.org>
Date: Tuesday, 28 March 2000 17:33
Subject: [JDEV] Jabber Printing Services


>Hi,
>
>I've been exploring an idea I have about expanding the GNU/Linux printing
>architecture by making use of Jabber.  I'm currently writing up such a
proposal
>but I wanted to get some feedback first.
>
>Basically, the purpose of this solution would be to obtain printer status
from a
>printer and to query printer capabilities and possibly submit print jobs
>(amongst other possibilities).  There are currently other efforts going on
to
>solve these problems but I see a lot of potential in using Jabber for such
a
>purpose.  Additionally, these other efforts are not necessarily
incompatible
>with what I have in mind.  In fact, I see a Jabber solution enhancing them.
>
>I know that's not enough to really get a complete feel for what I'm talking
>about.  But right now I'm curious as to if there is any interest in the
Jabber
>development community concerning such a proposal?  I believe that the
>client/server model of the Jabber architecture lends itself well to solving
some
>of these printing issues.  Also, I think that a set of printing services
based
>on Jabber would go a long way in proving how instant messaging, as
architected
>in Jabber, can solve a lot more problems than just instant messaging.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Marcus
>
>
>
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