Need email server aid

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:18 PM, Alvin Thompson wrote:
> On 04/28/2010 08:43 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> Hahaha, you have got to be kidding. How are you supposed to discover
>> other devices via smtp to get peer-to-peer working? Oh, I know, push all
>> that to the user just like making the user set up mailboxes per device
>> or setup dns so that the things can get their messages. Let the user
>> sort it out. Brilliant! This thing is so going to sell. Nah, I am all
>> for a custom protocol + gui and http for remote control. Forget smtp.
>> Maybe pop3 or imap but I won't make that a selling point.
>
> Specious. You would have to resolve exactly those same issues if you
> used HTTP or a custom protocol. The only difference is that you would
> have to write any reliability code yourself.

1) Nobody uses http for discovering other devices and I never said that.

2) There are custom protocols that eventually became standard protocols 
for discovering other devices. That is what switches and routers use 
today. If email or smtp were suitable to this task, they would long ago 
have used it or extended it for this purpose. Call it specious all you 
like, no one is ever going to use smtp or email for peer to peer 
communication between devices except maybe you.


>
>>> As I mentioned in a previous post, J2EE would be too heavyweight for
>>> this application. But yes, servlets and webservices can be decoupled
>>> from the transport layer. They were designed that way, and you can use
>>> any transport you want. You could use x-modem if you wanted.
>>>
>>
>> Are your servlets/web services at all remote controlled via smtp or do
>> you just send reports over smtp?
>
> Trying to go off on another tangent argument again?
>

What's the matter? You cannot even say a simple yes, I use smtp to 
remote control my web services/servlets or no, I actually just send 
reports only at the moment?