Re: AW: [OT] Recommendation of Instant Messagging System

2005-05-05 Thread Erik Weber
I keep forgetting what forum I'm in here -- I mostly use Swing, not HTML browsers, with Struts, etc. This makes it a lot easier for me to use whatever protocol I want for whichever service. If you are stuck using an HTML browser as your vehicle for a user interface for the messaging system, you

Re: AW: [OT] Recommendation of Instant Messagging System

2005-05-05 Thread Erik Weber
XMPP and HTTP are nothing alike. XMPP is a stateful protocol and HTTP is a stateless protocol. XMPP pushes out alerts actively while with HTTP you have to poll when doing messaging. XMPP is all XML (and extendable) in addition. If you are going to use XMPP (and you should, instead of hacking a