On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:53 -0800, Robert Quattlebaum wrote: > What if these plug-ins are actually separate processes? Imagine if you > were using some sort of XMPP client daemon, for example. In such a > setup, you would have separate processes for file transfer, > audio/video chat, roster, etc. With how Jingle is currently specified, > only one process would be allowed to do Jingle stuff at a time. So you > could video chat, but not while being able to do file transfers. You > could use file transfer, but not be able to do video chat.
The Jingle process could itself have plugins (subprocesses again) to handle a/v or file transfer or whatever. Presumably this subprocess plugin architecture does not use blocking RPC. If it does, you have bigger problems; for instance, you can't do two file transfers at once.
