[jdev] Communicate between two client instances of the same ID

[Peter Saint-Andre]

JLIST wrote:

> If this is the case, what's <message /> typically used for?
> Multi-media data like UDP?

Instant messaging, alerts and notifications, that kind of thing.

> BTW, what's the recommended way of sending binary data in XMPP?
> BASE64 encoded?

What kind of binary data, and how much? Typically we go out of band for 
such things, but for small bits of binary we have XEP-0231 (just about 
to advance to Draft):

http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0231.html

Peter

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