using BOSH/similar technique for existing application/system

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Published on 2010-03-17T21:15:31Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 21:41 UTC
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We've an existing system which connects to the the back end via http (apache/ssl) and polls the server for new messages, needless to say we have scalability issues.

I'm researching on removing this polling and have come across BOSH/XMPP but I'm not sure how we should take the BOSH technique (using long lived http connection).

I've seen there are few libraries available but the entire thing seems bloaty since we do not need buddy lists etc and simply want to notify the clients of available messages.

The client is written in C/C++ and works across most OS so that is an important factor. The server is in Java.

does bosh result in huge number of httpd processes? since it has to keep all the clients connected, what would be the limit on that. we are also planning to move to 64 bit JVM/apache what would be the max limit of clients in that case.

any hints?

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