On 1/9/12 4:32 PM, Markus Kohlhase wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to discuss the status of XEP 0075 with you. > My motivation to use it is to write an XMPP based application. It's a > distributed system with a web client for managing some entities. > > There are several ways to communicate with application servers, e.g. > > - XEP 0009: Jabber RPC > - XEP 0050: Ad-Hoc Commandd > - XEP 0072: SOAP Over XMPP > > But there are some drawbacks. > Jabber RPC/XML-RPC is an old and great protocol. But if you want to > manage a lot of entities with its properties it's sometimes > complicated to map the methods to the entities. > Ad-Hoc Commands are designed for human interaction and support only > simple data structures (XEP-0004). Of course you can use XEP 0244 but > it's still not really suited for machine to machine interaction. > SOAP is a modern way to interact between multiple systems but for my > case its too bloated for my needs. > In my opinion JOAP is a great protocol for handling a bunch of objects. > > My questions: > > - Are there any other similar protocols?
Perhaps IO Data: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0244.html > - Is it worth to work on that protocol? Maybe. :) It's very old and might not reflect up-to-date thinking about interactions between entities. > - What do you think should be improved? I haven't looked at JOAP in 9 years, so I'm not sure what I'd change. XEP-0244 is the most recent attempt to work on something similar. XEP-0072 is indeed bloated, but you get all that SOAP stuff for free in various libraries, so it might be worth a closer look. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
