[JDEV] jabber, grove, and communcation infastructure

[David Waite]

"Rolle, Ted" wrote:

> Quick, guys!  I have a manager stopping by this afternoon to take a look at
> Jabber!  He has the authority to approve continuation of my intranet
> implementation here...
>

cool!

>
> So, what I'm asking is:
> What sorts of things can Jabber be used for, besides Instant Messaging;
> what's currently being worked on?  What's in the planning stage?
>

Some of the stuff I've been oogling over lately is Pocketlinux - they are
trying to use Jabber for almost everything, apparently including
synchronization and sending/receiving email.

One demo put together was using jabber as remote control for a mp3 jukebox.

There are others, but they don't jump to mind.

>
> The Instant Messaging of Jabber might be enough to "sell" it, but my vision
> is that it can be used to transmit files to users, process control,
> whatever....
>
> Eagerly awaiting replies-ly
>
> Ted
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Muldowney [mailto:temas at box5.net]
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:59
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] jabber, grove, and communcation infastructure
>
> This is exactly what Jabber was designed for, it just happens that IM is the
> first (and easiest) case example.  As St. Peter mentioned PocketLinux is
> using
> Jabber for just about everything it does, very neat!  I also know of help
> desk
> management solutions, and system monitoring solutions built on Jabber's
> ideas.
> I would expect to see a lot more coming out soon along lines other than your
> standard "IM" fair.
>
> --temas
>
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 10:58:05PM -0500, kellan wrote:
> > i recently went to a little presentation on groove (groove.net) which is
> > ray ozzie's new collaboration tool/network.
> >
> > groove has been running as one of those high profile stealth-mode
> > companies (like transmeta) so i was pysched to see a little of what they
> > had been working on.(remembering vaguely that they had finally come out of
> > the closest, but having not had time to follow up)
> >
> > groove, in a sentence, is a p2p (whatever that means) groupware app,
> > messaging, shared spaces, collaboration, etc.
> >
> > i first perked up my ears when i heard the term "groove communicates
> > between servers and clients via an xml stream of deltas".  well the phrase
> > "xml stream" made me thing of jabber, and that is how i thought of it for
> > the rest of the presentation.
> >
> > users can communicate directly peer-to-peer but will often find each other
> > through servers.  these servers handle registering presences (jabber
> > again), and use transports(!!) to be "device agnostic", i.e. talk to cell
> > phones and whatever other gadgets people have.
> >
> > so my question is, is jabber being used for anything like this?  in the
> > backend, to provide the communications framework for an application?  how
> > suited is jabber to this sort of role?  in my shallow analysis of the
> > space it would seem like jabber would be very suited to this.
> >
> > any thoughts, feedback?
> >
> > kellan
> >
> >
> >
> >
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