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Don chat protocols like XMPP and Jabber already handle real-time communication over the Web?

April 26, 2017chat communication jabber protocols real-time web XMPP

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Don chat protocols like XMPP and Jabber already handle real-time communication over the Web?

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Typically, Web-based chat systems are implemented through client-side polling. Polling is inefficient in computing resources both on the client and on the server, particularly when no data is available on the server. While it seems real-time to the user, there are many additional (and unnecessary) computing resources working ‘under the hood’ to make this happen.