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Re: [paho-dev] Pulling Open Source MQTT Broker into the Eclipse Paho Project
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I assume that this discussion will take account of community contributed thoughts on the Paho wiki
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Paho/Paho_MQTT_Broker
(and I hope the author of the ideas posted there is invited to the discussion)
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Arlen Nipper
<arlen.nipper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All,
I think it is fairly evident that although the
adoption of
MQTT has seen an accelerated uptake recently for many reasons, the
availability
of quality open source MQTT Broker implementations has been one of
the key
factor. The ease with which developers can download and deploy the
Mosquitto
MQTT broker along with the availability of a multitude of MQTT
client
implementations on many different platforms and languages has
greatly benefited
the MQTT ecosystem at large.
Prior to the Mosquitto MQTT broker
availability, IBM made
the executable of their “Really Small Message Broker” or RSMB
available for
developers to experiment with in conjunction with the development
of their MQTT
client implementations, but the terms of use outside of a
development
environment restricted the general adoption of RSMB in the
community at large.
Having said this, with RSMB being available for many years now, it
has its fair
share of implementations and is well tested.
Considering that the Paho project is focused on
the
proliferation of the MQTT protocol (both client and broker
implementations) it
would be desirable to collaborate to combine the best of what both
Mosquitto
and RSMB bring to the MQTT
ecosystem into
a single effort in the Paho Project. I will note here that to date
the
developers of both RSMB and Mosquitto have not collaborated and
only the API’s
are similar in the implementations.
But
what I would like to propose is that we start an investigation
into what the
logistics would be to combine these features that would result in
a single
“Best in Class” open source MQTT Broker implementation.
Both Roger Light (Mosquitto developer) and IBM
have
expressed interest in moving their respective code bases into the
Paho project.
As a first step I would propose that we facilitate a call to
initially kick off
a conversation on what the process would be.
The feedback from the Paho team and the community at large
have all been
positive on seeing this effort kicked off, but without some
initial
conversations no one knows what the scope of the integration would
be. An
initial call and frank discussions around the two designs would,
at a minimum,
provide an initial level of scope and resources required to
accomplish this.
We believe that there is a way to do this
effectively and
efficiently once we can discuss and understand the design and
understand what resources
and commitments would be implied. I would invite anyone else that
would like to
participate on this call to contact me and I’ll add them to the
attendee list.
Best Regards, Arlen
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