[jdev] Help choosing the right technology

[andy nes]

Hey Michael,

Thank you for a quick reply, appreciate it.

Guaranteed Message Delivery is quite important for us. Shall look into the
XEP.

Also, we are inclined towards ejabberd as server. Will check if ejabberd
implements XEP-184.

I realized that Machine to Machine requirement is redundant, can ignore
that.

Always ON: The application is a tracking one. Hence the application should
always, at regular intervals, send the location data to the server without
closing the connection. The application runs on a mobile. That's what I
mean by Always ON.

Any idea if there's any XEP for stream compression?

regards,
andy


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Michael Weibel <
michael.weibel+xmpp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi andy,
>
> > Real time communication.
>
> You'll get that for free when you open a connection to the XMPP Server.
>
> > Push based communication.
>
> Besides ejabberd commercial, I don't know which servers implement this.
>
> > Guaranteed message delivery
>
> This is one of the most important things for mobile (as you might know
> already). There's XEP-184[1] for this and you have to watch out that your
> server implements this in order to know that the server really received
> this message.
> Besides this XEP there exist different implementations by some servers.
>
> > Scalability
>
> This entirely depends on the server and, more specifically on your use
> case. You might want to do load tests using e.g. Tsung[2].
>
> > Machine to Machine communication
>
> What do you mean with this? XMPP is a federated protocol, therefore S2S
> communication is builtin.
>
> > Mobile friendly
>
> XML is considered verbose. You can enable stream compression if the server
> supports it. On the last XMPP Summit they talked about XML->JSON
> translating which might help to reduce verbosity.
>
> > always on
>
> I don't know what you mean with this, can you elaborate?
>
> > Is XMPP good to build a Mobile app?
>
> Message reliability is very important (as said previously). Also you'll
> need an XMPP library which is robust. There's e.g. asmack[3] for Android
> and e.g. XMPPFramework[4] for iOS.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Michael
>
> [1]: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0184.html
> [2]: http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
> [3]: https://github.com/rtreffer/asmack
> [4]: https://github.com/robbiehanson/XMPPFramework
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