[OPEN-ILS-DEV] The use of Jabber on Evergreen

[Edward Corrado]

Hi All,

Let me preface this by saying I don't personally have an issue with 
Jabber being used as a communication tool in Evergreen, and I think the 
experience in Georgia shows it does the job, however.....

On multiple occasions when talking to people who have varying levels of 
IT/programming background, but not too much experience with Evergreen or 
other ILS software, they start to wonder about the choice of Jabber to 
communicate within the software package. I hear things like:

    "it is a weak link"
    "it doesn't scale"
    "it is a hack"
    "why would they do that, Jabber isn't designed for use that way"
    etc.

As I mentioned, I think the experience in Georgia shows that Jabber 
works for Evergreen, and can at least scale to the level of a state wide 
public library system (which is bigger than anything I am proposing here 
in NJ). However, I really don't know enough about the choice of Jabber 
to respond in any other way than "the proof is in the pudding, it works 
in Georgia." Can anyone offer me any better arguments why the use of 
Jabber isn't a problem (or, for that matter, confirm that it is)?

Edward




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