Technology Choices: MOO vs Jabber vs Messenger
Ivan R. Judson
judson at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Sep 13 08:32:45 CDT 2002
Here's another choice that might make design and implementation of 2.0
faster if we all agree: MOO or Jabber or ???.
The obvious three choices are MOO, Jabber and Messenger:
Messenger MOO
Jabber
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Extensible (SDK) Extensible (OSS)
Extensible (OSS)
Windows/Mac/-Linux Windows/Mac/Linux
Windows/Mac/Linux
Secured with Passport Integrated security Modular Security
options
SASL integration
GSI available
Server unavailable Server Open Source Server Open
Source
Integrated with CXP tkSchmooze! No
Multimedia yet
Deployable (only client) Deployable
Deployable
It seems to me that Jabber offers mostly the benefit of providing 80% of
the MOO functionality (it doesn't currently support topology or the MOO
style command set), but in a more modern solution. The architecture is
similar to what we're discussing for 2.0, and again, it's able to
integrate with our security choice of GT2.0.
Thoughts?
--Ivan
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