[Vortex] APEX / XMPP over BEEP?

[Jens Alfke]

On 3 May '08, at 4:18 AM, Robert M. Münch wrote:

> I read about XMPP and it has some nice features but I think BEEP could
> offer more. Has anyone looked in implementing either APEX (I don't  
> think
> so) or XMPP over BEEP? Google just returned 2 hits... Robert

You could run XMPP/Jabber over BEEP, but there'd be redundancy since  
both protocols do some of the same things.

Probably the best approach would be to deliver each XMPP message/ 
packet/stanza as a separate BEEP message.

For <iq> packets, you could send the XMPP reply either as the BEEP  
reply, or just as a separate BEEP message (since the reply <iq>  
contains the XMPP id of the original.) However, XMPP doesn't have  
BEEP's requirement that messages be replied to in order, which might  
cause problems with the first approach.

APEX might be cleaner to implement since it was, of course, designed  
to layer atop BEEP. What are the specific XMPP features that you're  
interested in?

(I actually wrote a Jabber implementation years ago as part of the  
early work on Apple's iChat client; but I'm pretty rusty on the  
details of the protocol by now.)

—Jens
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