Hello Andres
nice to see you on this list :)
Stef
Le 19/11/14 19:40, Andres Fortier a écrit :
Hi Esteban,
Never used either of them, but IIRC there was a Jabber package in
Visualworks (JabberXMPP?), although not sure if it provided both
client and server. There is also
http://www.squeaksource.com/@zQrCJXpxIQLxqde8/tV369AO0. Seems dated,
but maybe worth a shot considering you only need the server side?
HTH,
Andrés
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo
<emaring...@gmail.com <mailto:emaring...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I'll be needing to add bidirectional messaging to our current
Android (Java) application, and as usual I'm expecting to manage
the server side of the communication with Pharo.
I'm evaluating two alternatives, but I'm in open to other, proven,
options.
Option 1. WebSockets
Open a WebSocket on each device, and push/retrieve messages from
each of these, tracking the device id if I need to recreate a new
socket (avoiding recreating new sockets in case of connectivity
issues, very common).
Option 2. MQTT [1]
This is basically a mobile oriented MQ, super low footprint on
mobile.
For what I saw, I could implement the server using an intermediate
MQ (RabbitMQ) and use STOMP to connect to it.
Option 3. XMPP [3]
Provides several features I'll need in the future, like file
transfer in addition to regular text messaging. It is very well
supported in Android with Smack [4], but I don't know if we have a
Pharo server for it, or if somebody ever played with it.
By means of simplicity and use load I favor option 1, because I
can understand it better, and as everything moves towards web
based technologies, I could implement WAMP [5] on top of that in
the future.
Right now I'd need to have a hundred websockets opened at the same
time, which doesn't sound like a heavy load to me, but I certainly
don't know. In the future it could be an order of magnitude
bigger, and that's why I don't discard more complex solutions like
XMPP or MQTT.
Regards!
[1] http://mqtt.org/
[2] https://github.com/svenvc/docs/blob/master/neo/stamp.md
[3] http://xmpp.org/
[4] http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/smack/
[5] http://wamp.ws/
