[JDEV] MQSeries and Jabber

[Stephen D. Williams]

Al Sutton wrote:
> 
> One of the big differences I can see is that MQ is a publish/subscribe
> architecture (i.e. one person publishes a message, others subscribe to the
> channel and all subscribers receive that message), where as Jabber is
> designed with point-to-point communication being the main concern.

But you forget that presence itself is fundamentally a publish/subscribe
system.  It's secondary use is to setup point-to-point message routing.

Both interfaces can and will be generalized as communication models.

sdw

> Al.
> 
> P.S. I'm aware of the efforts going into conferencing, but the basis of
> Jabber seems to have been point-to-point.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Abbas" <zsa at expertq.com>
> To: <jdev at jabber.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 5:27 PM
> Subject: [JDEV] MQSeries and Jabber
> 
> >
> > This is probably a bit off-topic, but ...
> >
> > I'm beginning an evaluation of IBM's MQSeries messaging
> > system and am wondering how it overlaps or complements the
> > Jabber protocol.
> >
> > Obviously, they're both messaging systems, although MQ
> > seems to be more programmatic, while Jabber is more
> > concerned with text messages.  Has anyone looked into, say,
> > implementing the MQ API as a Jabber transport, or using MQ
> > as an underlying transport for Jabber XML messages?
> >
> > =Bill
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