[JDEV] client performance

[Jason Horman]

I have seen mention of soap jabber protocols, or bots written for 
jabber. My question is related to performance. Say I want to write a bot 
which can respond to requests from AIM clients. My AIM connection is 1 
socket to AOL. That obviously doesn't scale. I can't connect to AIM 
multiple times with the same login, is there some other trick to scale 
something like this.

Maybe the AIM protocol is lightweight enough to scale up to some level 
of mps but the xml jabber protocol over a single socket starts to get 
painful.

-jason