I'm going to answer my own question after fully reading your website. It DOES support XMPP over HTTP. :)
This looks great, I'll have to play with it. Thanks! Mitch > -----Original Message----- > From: Mitch Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 2:30 PM > To: discuss@restlet.tigris.org > Subject: RE: Xeerkat XMPP & Restlet > > Alex, > > I found your site from the restlet.org site and I am > definitely interested in this API. Does your implementation > support XMPP over HTTP? > We have considered using XMPP for getting access to "behind > the firewall" services as well...but there are cases where > even normal outbound ports besides port 80 or 443 are blocked. > > Mitch > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Alex Milowski > > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 10:39 AM > > To: discuss@restlet.tigris.org > > Subject: Xeerkat XMPP & Restlet > > > > I've finished integrating restlet & XMPP for my P2P > computing work. > > You can now access restlets through XMPP. That means you can just > > write normal REST-style applications and access them over XMPP. > > > > My current motivation for this (besides grid computing) is > to access > > services that are behind firewalls. The service can make a > outbound > > connection to its XMPP server and that you can communicate with it > > over XMPP. > > > > The project & alpha release is at: > > > > http://code.google.com/p/xeerkat/ > > > > Also, if you just want to use the XMPP transport, you can > use the the > > "xeerkat" > > and "sxeerkat" protocols in your own application. The > > restlet-xmpp.jar file from the "restlet-xmpp" subproject provides > > client and server connectors. You'll need several support > jar files > > for the XMPP client code and XML support. > > > > Anyway, having the restlet API has greatly simplified this P2P > > computing framework in that all you have to do is write a restlet > > Application instance and you can write simple edge > services. If you > > want to coordinate between peers, you need to do a little more work > > inside that application but it isn't rocket science like it was > > before. > > > > --Alex Milowski > > >
