Connection presence with Orbited

Orbited is a comet technology, allowing you to hookup a message broker and protocol to it to manage messages and other such features you may have. Orbited currently ships with MorbidQ and STOMP as the default broker and protocol, but if you're looking for more control, as in a chatroom and knowing how many people are in a certain "room", a different protocol would be needed. I'm going to be looking into plugging in a XMPP protocol into Orbited to replace the current one we're using, which is ActiveMQ with STOMP. I'll update with more information on that soon.

Here are some resources to learn more about comet, orbited, and such:

Orbited main page (sometimes goes down) and google group:

http://orbited.org/

http://groups.google.com/group/orbited-users

About the Comet neogism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)

Protocol information for Orbited:

http://orbited.org/wiki/Protocols