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Interesting. I had the impression the general opinion about XMPP is that it's resented as the SOAP of messaging.
by k__ 5y ago
Interesting.
I had the impression the general opinion about XMPP is that it's resented as the SOAP of messaging.
- dwaite 5y agoThe primary similarity between the two is the use of XML. Maybe the general opinion is that XML sucks?
- olau 5y agoIt's just not a great protocol. Many years back I was working on a desktop client for XMPP. The first problem I encountered was that XMPP does not actually send individual XML documents each time it sends a message. Instead it starts with a tag that is not closed until you actually turn off your client and close the connection. So you couldn't use a simple XML document parser for those relatively simple messages as it would read the start tag and never finish, but had to do some kind of streaming-based thing.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoThis was my experience. It did end up doing what we needed and being able to use off the shelf libraries/servers at the time was convenient, but holy heck is the protocol chatty and annoying to debug at the trace level.