[JDEV] Java/Jabber/Client-Server Application

[Anuadiga at aol.com]

I posted a question about developing a an application where a GUI client will 
be installed on the user's machine and an application will be sitting on a 
separate server. Client and the application interact over the internet. I was 
thinking about using Jabber protocol and instant messaging for communication 
between client on users machine and the application on the server because the 
data that needs to be passed to user's machine sits in a database on the 
server and application will decide what content need to be extracted and sent 
to client on user's machine. 
 
Can anybody tell me 
1/ any other way of doing this other than using jabber protocol
2/ If I decide to use jabber protocol what kind of coding and effort will be 
needed on the server to receive/send messages from multiple clients at a time
3/ Is it possible to pass images, binary data using jabber protocol/xml from 
the application to the clients on users machine. How?
4/ Will there be any problem with maximum number of connections the 
application make to different clients on users machine?

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