[jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On 7/13/10 2:04 PM, Jason Fritcher wrote:
> 
> On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Bill de hÓra wrote:
>> It's not that XML is power hungry (streaming parses do ok cpu
>> wise), it's that XMPP/XML eats bandwidth and the chatiness (no pun
>> intended) of XMPP when people aren't saying anything will tend to
>> keep to impact the phone radio (and thus the battery). Anyone
>> tracing XMPP knows that there is a lot of presence stuff flying
>> about when people aren't saying anything and that part for mobile
>> at least, is pretty inefficient.
>> 
>> A well defined mobile XMPP profile seems like a good idea, instead
>> of grab bagging various XEPs and trying them out. Once there was an
>> optimal mobile profile, whether or not XML makes sense would be
>> much clearer.
> 
> Anyone know if Apple has done anything special with their XMPP
> implementation for their Push Notification system? They're apparently
> using XMPP as the messaging bus between the various iOS devices and
> the push servers.

I think it's pretty much stock pubsub, using Idavoll.

Peter

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