[JDEV] Jabber as COM/DCOM replacement for linux.

[Oliver George]

Jabber as COM/DCOM replacement for linux.
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Think about it...

- you can access local/remote objects by a string identifier, the
  transport JID

- you can define user/group privileges based on the sender JID (perhaps
  mapped directly to unix user/group permissions)

- it has capacity for reference counting (presences)

- it has capacity for exceptions (responses of type="error")

- it has RPC functionality in the guise of IQ request/responses

- it allows language independent communication

- it would be really light/efficient where the packets are just passed
  around by references to memory structures (and slower if it is
  serialized in transit)

- Optional idea: it would even handle buffering messages where the
  destination is not currently connected (bound to be useful for something?)

- Optional idea: you could use the XML-RPC type definitions for language
  independent type passing.

I'd like to say at this point that a little knowledge is a dangerous
thing and I'm definitely no expert. The idea seems really interesting
though  :)

I'm curious as to anyone elses thoughts on the issue,

regards, Oliver.