As far as I can see xmpp is really powerful. So we could use it for much more than IM and social apps.
Lets say we want to control a little robot remotely via web or just monitor some sensor data. Here we'd get into trouble because controlling means sending messages very frequently (eg. every 20 milli seconds) thats quite hard to achieve via HTTP/BOSH. But the upcomming WebSockets might be a solution?!

My question:
Does anybody have some experiments with websockets? Or does anybody though about building a xmpp app with it? And does anybody already used xmpp for other purposes than IM and social apps? What are your motivations to dive into XMPP?

Hi Flozzy,

Here is a link showing a demo using XMPP over WebSockets controling a game - from Google Hackaton.

Btw, sending a message every 20ms is not a problem.

Jonas

Thank you for the link!

Really? Using normal sockets or websockets of course it works, but with HTTP I exposed not. Maybe I just should try it ;-)

FYI: flXHR slow down your connection dramatically!

Now I use nginx as a proxy so I don't need the "flash hack" any more :) Moreover some strange unpredictable connection errors caused by flXHR I had are history now :) In addition: Using closed source technologies isn't a good idea in most cases ;-)

So my advice: Invest some minutes to setup a proxy instead of getting angry at flXHR!

WebSocket is not widely deployed in browsers yet. It would solve your latency concerns as it uses a single socket message passing interface instead of abusing HTTP requests/response semantics to achieve its goals.

There isn't currently a binding for XMPP over WebSocket, but I do plan to work on one, and I'm sure others have been thinking about it as well.

Agree with metajack, there is currently not a wide adoption of Websockets although it is picking up with Safari 5, Chrome 4, and nightly builds of FF. Microsoft, who knows.

We have implemented support for XMPP over WebSocket and we created this demo site to showcase it - kaazing.me (you can use your Google account to log in and chat). And as metajack states, most likely there are others implementing or working on implementing support for XMPP over WebSocket. Currently it looks like most of the XMPP adoption is within the IM, gaming, and social community. Would love to hear if there is other usecases for XMPP.

Cheers,
Jonas

I'd love to hear how you do the framing for XMPP over WebSocket. That should eventually get written up as an Internet Draft or a XEP.