[JDEV] Requesting some info...

[Kelley Phillips]

I'm trying to find out if Jabber is the transport to use on a project I'm
starting. We need to kick off jobs on a remote server and pass back files
which can potentially be quite large (typical file sizes are less than a
Megabyte but this needs to be able to scale to a Gigabyte or two).
One catch is that the Server needs to be on a Windows 2000 server.

There's a list of other requirements (such as being able to handle
asynchronous and synchronous requests, authentication, detection of
presence...and more) and I'm concerned with whether or not this is a good
framework to use.
I noticed in the Jabber documentation that "Jabber supports the sending of
files from one user to another by means of the jabber:iq:oob namespace
("OOB" stands for "out of band" since files are sent outside the context of
the normal Jabber server routing...", does
this mean it's a bad idea to send files embedded in the standard tags? And
is Jabber-RPC unsuitable for moving large amounts of data?

So far what I've done is set up a Jabberd server, and have run a few tests
with Perl modules Jabber::RPC::Server and Jabber::RPC::Client,
and upped the Karma entries for Jabberd...

Any help on this is much appreciated!

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Kelley Phillips, email: Kelley.Phillips at infotechfl.com
Systems Analyst, Info Tech Inc.
Phone: 352-381-4400 Fax: 352-381-4450