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From: Sylvain Hellegouarch (Dec 17 2006, at 23:46)

How does AMPQ relate to XMPP? What are the benefits or drawbacks?

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From: Manuzhai (Dec 18 2006, at 07:12)

There's an article at http://antecipate.blogspot.com/2006/07/what-is-so-advanced-in-amqp.html about AMQP and its relation to XMPP. I find the author to be, well, a little whiny at times, but in this post he seems to be right on the money.

If you really believe in loose coupling and asynchronous messaging and open standards, why not go with the IETF-standardized XMPP? It's a pretty great protocol (I've worked through the RFC's and implemented parts of a client library to see how it works out: it works out just fine).

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From: Sylvain Hellegouarch (Dec 23 2006, at 01:36)

Thanks fo the link. Indeed I went for XMPP as well as I fail to grasp what AMQP brings over XMPP that could not be solved with the latter anyway.

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