[jdev] web presence

[Pedro Melo]

Hi,

we have something like this at Sapo that has been serving us well. It  
scale to a nice number of hits per sec (tested up to 10k hits/sec,  
with a single server).

We can clean up the component and share it if people are interested.

Se below for more info.

On Mar 9, 2006, at 5:05 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

> <img src='http://www.jabber.org/users/stpeter.png'/>
>
> Granted there are challenges here:
>
> 1. Needs to be opt-in (no presence leaking)

we use an external component and a feature of the server that mirrors  
presence information to it. It would be very simple to switch this to  
registration-based or roster-based solution.

You either register with it like a MSN transport, or add a contact in  
that domain.


> 2. User needs a way to choose icon set (if there's a choice)

You do that on the URL itself. like http://presence.site/SKIN/JID

No extra effort needed.


> 3. Jabber server and web server need to share information

We have two webservers in our setup, for redundancy. And they only  
need to share a filesystem (NFS for example) between them. With a bit  
more work, even that requirement can be dropped.

Our setup does not involve any database at all, to reduce bottlenecks.


> 4. Would not be dynamic (that would require an xmpp: URI)

I don't understand this, can you explain it better what you mean?

> At the jabber.org domain, #3 is a bit of a pain (the web server and
> jabber server are on different machines), but the challenge seems  
> to be
> surmountable.

This would be no problem with our setup.

Best regards,
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HIId: Pedro Melo
SMTP: melo at co.sapo.pt
XMPP: pedro.melo at sapo.pt