[jdev] The future of Jabber/XMPP?

[Bill de hÓra]

On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 14:06 -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 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.

APNS uses pubsub? Or is this a different service?

Bill