As has been mentioned before on this blog, OpenSRF relies on Jabber for it’s communication layer. Jabber is an instant messaging service much like AIM, Yahoo messenger, and the like. The advantage of Jabber, of course, is that it’s an open spec (see xmpp.org) and there are a number of […]
This will be a quick one because I’m feeling a bit under the weather, but I wanted to post a quick update on some of our tornado-like progress post-alpha.
There has been quite a saga unfolding slowly over the last couple months in the #code4lib IRC channel regarding the use of Amazon’s OpenSearch technology and it’s use for searching across cooperating libraries’ catalogs. Everyone there seems to agree, on a basic level, that OpenSearch is a useful search interface […]