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Re: [Jersey] Paper tigers and hidden dragons

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:42:51 +0200

On Sep 5, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Markus KARG wrote:

> Paul,
>
> thank you for posting the link. It was really interesting to read.
> While I share Roy's conclusion, I actually think that XMPP is very
> interesting and maybe in some future the world might accept that
> there are two general purpose protocols: HTTP for polling services,
> and XMPP for pushing services.


Could be :-) the sometimes difficult part is to know when to correctly
apply what technology.


> Maybe JAX-RS 3.0 will support it? ;-)


It would be interesting to see if XMPP and RESTful services can be
combined in terms of a Web application. There may be a lot of
similarities with XMPP and Comet in this respect.

Paul.

>
> Regards
> Markus
>
> From: Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM [mailto:Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM]
> Sent: Freitag, 5. September 2008 10:17
> To: users_at_jersey.dev.java.net
> Subject: [Jersey] Paper tigers and hidden dragons
>
> Hi,
>
> For those interested in designing HTTP-based systems Roy's latest
> blog entry is an excellent piece of thinking [*] about creating
> URIs and scaling:
>
> http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/paper-tigers-and-hidden-dragons
>
> (the comments are interesting too, especially the XMPP and SMTP
> comparison).
>
> When i briefly looked at the REST and XMPP presentation (and the
> blog entries about it) my right eyebrow did raise slightly in
> skepticism as to why the example chosen could not be solved using
> plain old HTTP, but then i moved on and got distracted by something
> else. In the less than 30 seconds it took for me to be skeptical Roy
> had a solution, oh well :-)
>
> Paul.
>
> [*] If It Doesn't Fit, Resource It
> http://www.crummy.com/2008/09/04/0