[jdev] Jabberd2, Flash Client and terminator character...

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:30:54AM -0600, Matthew A. Miller wrote:

> From what I've seen so far, here are the possible paths I see we can 
> follow to resolve this:
> 1)  Lobby Macromedia to provide better support for XMPP

They seem to have thrown their lot in with AOL, but I think that
long-term this would be the best approach.

> 2)  Lobby the jabberd2 project to provide better support for Flash

Further hack propagation is sub-optimal.

> 3)  Develop alternatives to direct XMPP streams

Let's see if we can make JEP-0124 do the right thing.

> For Option #3, I believe there is already something in the works, in the 
> form of JEP-0124: HTTP Binding.  It's not ideal, but given the fact that 
> it can much more easily accomodate the demands from both XMPP and 
> Flash.  The problem, of course, is that JEP-0124 is still rather 
> immature, and lacks any truly deployable implementations.  

Well, it's a fairly new JEP. I know of several folks working on
implementations, but not all of them will be open-source.

> Then again, 
> if the Flash-XMPP/Jabber community does not feel this is adequate, they 
> are welcome to present better alternatives.

As always. :-)

/psa