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

[DJ Adams]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 08:57:48AM +1100, ogeorge at littledevil.com.au wrote:
> 
> The more I think about it the more I love the idea.
> 
> It also highlights my least favourite part of jabber and offers a better 
> solution.
> 
> I think interfacing say the chat transport through iq/set should not be an 
> obscure flat naming thing (insert flame here) but instead should be an object 
> oriented interface to a series of functions.  What i'm trying to say is that 
> the interface should be XML-RPC across the jabber network.  
> 
> so notionally i might call functions on the chat transport by sending an iq/set 
> (or perhaps an iq/xmlrpc) to a jid on the chat transport:
>   <iq type=set to='chatt.localhost/groupid'>
>     <query xmlns='chat'>
>       <method>join</method>
>       <args></args>
>     </query>
>   </iq>
> 
> look at www.xml-rpc.com/spec if you are interested.

FWIW, see http://www.pipetree.com/jabber/XMLRPC if you haven't already ;-)

dj