This reminds me - I had a chat with Evan on this, and he was enthusiastic about resurrecting the concept. -- (Not at my desk)
Peter Saint-Andre <stpe...@stpeter.im> wrote: >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/ > >
