Hi MINA folks, Currently I am developing a XMPP[1] server implementation at Apache Labs[2] called Vysper[3][4] (pronounced 'whisper'). This effort is going on on and off since 2006, but recently it gained track again and reached some critical internal milestones (regarding to level of functionality completed and persistence layer added). Unfortunately, I am the only contributor to the project until now.
A few days ago at ACEU09 I spoke to Emmanuel and he had the idea of possibly making Vysper a sub-project of MINA. Thanks, Emmanuel! I gave this a few more thoughts and started to like the idea. So I'm starting a public discussion about it. The big advantages for Vysper in the MINA community would be: + strong protocol related community, + feel at home (Vysper uses MINA for IO), + ability to have a dedicated ML and make releases (eventually) + benefit from on-site MINA know-how The advantages for MINA could be: + add one more emerging protocol to the MINA roster + add one more MINA case to the project with specific interesting IO needs under high load (hint: Twitter), + look into optimizing support for non-line-oriented protocols + take Vysper (the software, not the project) as a possible experimental playground, since the IO layer should be relatively easy to change (for example changing it to MINA 1.x, 2.x, TRUNK). Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Bernd [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP [2] http://labs.apache.org [3] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/labs/vysper [4] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/labs/vysper/
