[jdev] discovery services

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:31:54PM -0500, Julian Missig wrote:

> Honestly, I prefer iChat's approach. Clients already have client  
> libraries that speak the c2s protocol. You strip out some of the  
> login/auth stuff and just use c2s to one another. That requires a lot  
> less new implementation and allows for a lot more code re-use... at  
> least the way Jabberoo was designed and how I imagine most libraries  
> are designed.
> 
> Since it's local I don't really see a need for Dialback and its  
> multiple socket connections and all sorts of other server pains that  
> client developers haven't had to be exposed to yet.

+1.

Keep it simple.

/psa