Jython: Hey, I'm back! Jython interest is up and down over the years. In the past the problem has been growing a community, and some of the stewarding, not the technology. Django on Jython certainly gives credence to Paul Graham's idea that successful languages have to be for a successful system, as well as Steve Vinoski's recent advice that tech marketing matters. Today it's web frameworks that drive languages rather than operating systems. I guess one thing to do would to port jython.org to Django on Jython and dogfood it out.
Scala: Yes! No! Maybe! Whatever, it's not blub, it's a fun language, and there can be more than one. Eric Burke wins the succinctness argument.
XMPP and SIP, jingle all the way: "I’ve published the first version of a Jingle-SIP mapping" - Peter St. Andre is filing specs to map SIP and XMPP. This a really big deal for mobile tech. Personally I think XMPP will "do a HTTP" and replace SIP, even IMS. The lesson? Network technologies that integrate other networks tend to win big.
Format wars, fun, anyone? Warner drops HD DVD, focuses on Blu-ray. We got a Wii for the kids this christmas, instead of a PS3; the whole "1984 called, they want their Betamax v VHS war back", between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD was one rationale for me to take a pass, but Orla figured a Wii would be straight up more fun. Was I ever unconvinced, but, the PS2 has hardly been used in the last two weeks, I'm hooked on Metroid Prime, and I don't want to play RE4 on the PS2 anymore. Patrick Logan was so right. I do wonder if this means PS3 prices will hold steady for a while, tho' you wonder what the shelf life of optical as a video medium is anyway.
Ipso facto: The 2007 IPv4 Address Use Report: "In 2007, the number of available IPv4 addresses went down from 1300.65 million to 1122.85 million, a difference of 177.8 million addresses. The number of usable addresses is 3706.65 million, so on January 1, 2007 we were at 64.9% utilization and a year later we're at 69.7%.".
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Jingle? Pull a HTTP? Have you looked at it? SIP on the other hand has a very solid design (UDP based signalling with no roundtrip for basic operations, direct media path, clear "verbs") and is human readable, clearly in the HTTP/SMTP tradition. Jingle is ... well .. XML.
SIP took over from H323 almost a solid decade ago just *because* of these things. Many networks today interoperates over SIP. Jabber hasn't really taken off as an interop protocol (if one does not count the transports, which are just that: transports), although it has built quite a following on its own.
Jingle doesn't really exist yet (not even Google Talk is fully interoperable over it). Name one network of any kind that has been integrated with Jingle (or Jabber for that matter).
Sure, SIP is not without interop problems of its own. But somehow I doubt running it over Jingle really helps. IMS on the other hand is a different beast altogether which I hope dies a horrible death.
Remember, HTTP *carries* XML. If HTTP *was* XML, I strongly doubt it would have "pulled an HTTP" in the first place.
"Jingle? Pull a HTTP? "
I said XMPP.
"SIP took over from H323 almost a solid decade ago just *because* of these things."
I know!
"Sure, SIP is not without interop problems of its own."
I know!
"But somehow I doubt running it over Jingle really helps."
I like that Jingle, a) doesn't pretend the network is homogeneous, b) tries to solve a real problem with outbound connectivity, the solution being, connect no matter what. Until Jingle or something like it prevails, or the world flips over to IPv6, we'll be stuck with proprietary tech, such as Skype.
"IMS on the other hand is a different beast altogether which I hope dies a horrible death."
No argument there.
"Remember, HTTP *carries* XML."
I know!