[JDEV] Renaming

[John Hebert]

I have to agree with temas's description of a resource. Location won't really convey
all the possible future uses of where a jabber enabled client will be used. Remember
that jabber is not necessarily a chat protocol.

I can easily imagine simultaneously running a number of jabber-enabled clients such
as an RSS viewer/agent, a jabber enabled multiplayer game, and a chat client.
Depending on one client to provide all of those services is wishful thinking, but
not realistic.

John Hebert

5/7/01 8:49:20 AM, temas <temas at box5.net> wrote:

>Another note is that resources are more and will be in the future more
>descriptive than just location.  Some of our talk about next gen stuff
>has given resources a much stronger role of organizing the methods used
>to search and discover entities.
>
>How many of us really knew screenname, buddylist, and those other
>AOLisms meant at first?  Yes they are self descriptive when you think
>about it, but so is resource, people just have to expand their mind and
>maybe read a dictionary.
>
>--temas
>
>On 04 May 2001 23:04:47 -0400, Julian Missig wrote:
>> The problem is that it will be referred to as resource everywhere
>> else... especially as we use more and more agents and
>> labels/instructions coming in from the server... then the users will
>> know "location" but have no idea what the "resource" is. The point of a
>> location/resource is somewhat lost if the user isn't aware of what it is
>> between clients.
>> 
>> Julian
>> 
>> On 04 May 2001 21:55:52 -0500, Justin Mecham wrote:
>> > I differ. Resources should remain as resource, since in reality, on a protocol level
>> > that's what they are. The protocal can be implemented however you wish. This is
>> > simply a client side issue. If you don't like the term resource, it's easy to change
>> > the label for it to say "Location" :)
>> > 
>> > Justin
>> > 
>> > ---- Original Message ----
>> > From:
>> >       Julian Missig
>> > Date:
>> >       Fri 5/4/01 21:48
>> > To:
>> >       jdev at jabber.org
>> > Cc:
>> >       James M. Cape
>> > Subject:
>> > [JDEV] Renaming "Resource"
>> > 
>> > I realize it's quite late in the game to propose such a thing... but
>> > "resource" is a really confusing name. Several people with user
>> > interface experience and I feel that "location" would be a better name. 
>> > 
>> > While it may become quite common to have several applications on the
>> > same computer which will be accessing Jabber and thus need multiple
>> > resources, I think the word "location" gets the point across more
>> > quickly and would be better understood, even though the user is not
>> > technically at a different physical location when they're running a
>> > second client.
>> > 
>> > Thoughts? Jer? Temas?
>> > 
>> > Julian
>> > -- 
>> > email: julian at jabber.org
>> > jabber:julian at jabber.org
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