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Subject: Re: KDE Jabber Library
From: Tim Jansen <tim () tjansen ! de>
Date: 2002-08-03 15:44:44
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On Saturday 03 August 2002 17:00, Neil Stevens wrote:
> Jabber is actually one of the *least* centralized messaging systems out
> there. Jabber is like email, while other systems attempt to lock you in
> to some proprietary server. With Jabber, you actually have the
But Jabber requires a server. If you have two laptops with wireless LAN in an
ad-hoc network (without internet or a server), you can not make a connection
from system A to system B to, for example, send a file or play a game. So if
you would use Jabber/XMPP as the infrastructure for a network game, all
players need to be connected to the internet, even if they are in the same
LAN.
SIMPLE is an example of a protocol that can also work without a server. This
is why I would like to have an API that's flexible enough that SIMPLE support
can be added later (which I would really like to do, but SIMPLE is no fun as
long as we dont have a media framework).
bye...
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