[ghns] DXS and XMPP

[Josef Spillner]

Oi,

Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2007 18:00 schrieb John Nilsson:
> Hi,
>
> I just read about GHNS on lwn.net, and was positively intrigued by the
> project. Reading about DXS made me think that there is some overlap with
> XMPP, specially PubSub [1] but XMPP seems to have specs for many things
> [2] that DXS could use.

The API exposes completely asynchronous events, so if there's a way to fuse 
notifications about new/updated entries into the KNS engine, they should be 
picked up right away.

Notifications/subscriptions are already handled with by DXS (our interactive 
web service) and put into the database, but there's no notification happening 
yet. Since KDE 4 will strengthen its IM integration with Jabber, Telepathy 
and such toys, we could piggyback on this to get the information from the 
server (e.g. web service) to the user. The key issue here is that we do not 
want to establish permanent connections between the desktop and every 
possible server out there, but permanent connections are a must-have for 
notifications. Therefore, using Jabber to do this (a single permanent 
connection) sounds like a good idea.

Josef