[google-appengine] Re: Broadcasting real-time notifications using XMPP - possible?

2009-10-15 Thread Kris
Thanks for your thoughts Nick - I think we'll give it a try, and I'll update this thread when we've got some results to share. :-) Cheers, Kris On Oct 14, 2:08 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" wrote: > Hi Kris, > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Kris wrote: > > > Hi Nick, > > > Interesting idea

[google-appengine] Re: Broadcasting real-time notifications using XMPP - possible?

2009-10-14 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Kris, On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Kris wrote: > > Hi Nick, > > Interesting idea - I'd not really looked at PubSubHubbub before. > Sadly I don't think it's the right fit for this project - they're > desktop apps, and they're often behind a firewall, so getting an > external server to ini

[google-appengine] Re: Broadcasting real-time notifications using XMPP - possible?

2009-10-13 Thread Kris
Hi Nick, Interesting idea - I'd not really looked at PubSubHubbub before. Sadly I don't think it's the right fit for this project - they're desktop apps, and they're often behind a firewall, so getting an external server to initiate a connection isn't going to be practical. So back to XMPP, ther

[google-appengine] Re: Broadcasting real-time notifications using XMPP - possible?

2009-10-13 Thread Nick Johnson (Google)
Hi Kris, Have you considered using PubSubHubbub? If your 'clients' are other servers, this is exactly what it's designed for. If your clients are, eg, desktop apps, the XMPP solution is probably a good one, though realistically you probably want each client to have a separate account, and notify th

[google-appengine] Re: Broadcasting real-time notifications using XMPP - possible?

2009-10-12 Thread niklasr
XMPP multicast certainly is doable for instance via the official good gae xmpp project already achieving similar functions, broadcasting answers to questions when answers appear, is http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/using_xmpp.html and seems able to do what you want with small modification