Beyond SOAP and REST

It's finally happened, one of my ideas has germinated beyond my little world. For the past 4+ years or so I've been messing around with instant messaging and alternative uses for it. I started off with utilizing AIM to access a series of web services providing the user with information. Next I moved on to building a system called StreamingRSS, the code for it is actually in the Google Code store, that allows a server to broadcast RSS to users instantly, ie Push, instead of Pull, which is what RSS does.

Now, I was out at OSCON 2008, awesome time, and one of the best presentations titled "Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub". These guys took the concept of XMPP forward. I got a bunch of really good ideas from their presentation, places where I went one way and they went another way. Most of their ideas are a cleaner implementation then mine. For the most part, I think this is a result the time. Most of my work was done with an extreamly short time frame so I didn't have time to fully implement. Of course in some cases the technology simply hadn't escaped someone elses lab. No matter, I think these guys did an awsome job.

All this has given me the idea that it's time to write a good article or maybe a white paper on the topic and shate my knowledge on the topic. :)