Re: [hybi] Is there a traffic jam?

[Jamie Lokier <[e-mail]>]

Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:
> Perhaps the reason BEEP has never taken off is because it's so versatile
> that it ultimately creates a bigger mismatch. I'm afraid WS might follow
> the same trend.

The BEEP web page suggests it's used more than you think.

I suspect not so much versatility (HTTP is versatile), as it's too
basic for a lot of applications.  You have to write your own stuff on
top of it, so you might as well go all the way and use TCP or SSL,
which isn't much harder and doesn't require you to learn another library.

Or at the other end of the scale, useing HTTP or something ugly like
SOAP containing a short string wrapped in 1k of pointlessness, because
that's provided by well known libraries and the handy
metadata/extensibility means you don't have to design your own way to
add those things ad hoc.

-- Jamie