Can XMPP be used like Comet's http long wait?

Question

Can XMPP be applied in a similar way to the reverse Ajax pattern? Can it be used to implement http long wait like Comet? Is there an example of using such a technique with XMPP?

Revelationist

Answer 1

Yes. Take a look at XMPP over BOSH. It's a long-lived non-polling technique. From the BOSH specification:

This specification defines a transport protocol that emulates the semantics of a long-lived, bidirectional TCP connection between two entities (such as a client and a server) by efficiently using multiple synchronous HTTP request/response pairs without requiring the use of frequent polling or chunked responses.

jbosh is an open source Java implementation. Tigase.org has a number of projects, including BOSH support, and appears to be mostly Java/GWT. JAXMPP is a Java library in the framework, although it's not clear what feature set it supports. I've not tried any of these myself.

Ichthyoid

@cometta: I've added Java links to the revised answer. – Ichthyoid

can you comment on benefit of using xmpp bosh approach compared with comet ? which stand out better? – Revelationist

@cometta: I think that is a detailed enough discussion to require its own question. – Ichthyoid

Answer 2

• Like Ire told you can use bosh for that. On the client-side(javascript) you could use strophe.js.
• Prosody is an easy to install XMPP-server which supports BOSH.
• To learn how to create programs using strophe.js you could read Professional XMPP programming with javascript and Jquery

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