[JDEV] Transport Decisions

[Ivan R. Judson]

Yeah well, I found them before anybody replied :-)

--Ivan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> Ivan R. Judson
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:37 AM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: RE: [JDEV] Transport Decisions
>
>
>
> Hey There,
>
> Ok.  I've groked the situation of the XML Stream being it's own
> thing.  Now, is
> there a Schema or DTD for what an XML Stream is?  It appears to me to be it's
> own namespace at least...what are the valid attributes, etc?
>
> --Ivan
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jdev-admin at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-admin at jabber.org]On Behalf Of
> > Thomas Charron
> > Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:41 PM
> > To: jdev at jabber.org
> > Subject: Re: [JDEV] Transport Decisions
> >
> >
> > From: "Ivan R. Judson" <judson at mcs.anl.gov>
> > Subject: [JDEV] Transport Decisions
> > > I'm delving deep into the jabber server architecture and the protocols.
> > I'm
> > > wondering however if there's a thread somewhere talking about the decision
> > to
> > > create the stream:stream namespace instead of using XML-RPC or SOAP?
> >
> >     XML-RPC and SOAP use a variety of existing protocols as transports, and
> > ride the actual XML payload on top of them.  The stream namespace is
> > basically strait XML over the socket.  Don't think of it as a replacement
> > for XML-RPC or SOAP.  Think of it as just another transport.  One could just
> > as easily do XML-RPC and SOAP over the stream socket protocol.
> >
> > > I'm wondering if an evaluation of the merits has been done and if there's
> > > anything I can read about that decision.
> >
> >     See above.  There are no socket streamed XML transports out there.  the
> > 'etherx scheme' provides this.
> >
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