Hi Ian, One of the value-added aspects of ESME is in the server-side logic, which allows users to set up rules & behaviours (e.g. "only send me messages from X if they are tagged Y", and "email me when someone starts following me"). Also, there is a fundamental difference in attitude between broadcast & subscribe: XMPP/Jabber and email are used to send messages *to* people; ESME and other microsharing solutions are more about end users deciding who they want to hear *from*. Having said that, there is a sense in which we are somewhere in the middle of a continuum that has email at one end and IM at another. Even so, we think we occupy a niche with strong demand, especially for enterprise-grade levels of security and control over messaging - none of which is present in IM or email solutions.
Please have a read through the articles at http://blog.esme.us/ for more about what makes us different & valuable. Best regards, Darren >Hi. > >don't take this the wrong way, but what is wrong with XMPP and jabber >for this kind of thing? wouldn't it make more sense to just extend that? > > > >Darren Hague wrote: >> I would like to propose ESME as a project for the Apache Incubator. >> >> Enterprise Social Messaging Experiment (ESME) is a secure and highly >> scalable microsharing and micromessaging platform that allows people >> to discover and meet one another and get controlled access to other >> sources of information, all in a business process context. ESME is >> written in Scala and uses the Lift web framework. >> >> Please see http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ESMEProposal for details. >> >> Since this is my first Apache project, any and all feedback is welcome >> - I will call for a vote a few days after relevant messages on the >> list reduce to a trickle and people seem happy with the proposal. >> >> Best regards, >> Darren Hague >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
