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WCF vs XMPP: What are the differences?

What is WCF? A runtime and a set of APIs for building connected, service-oriented applications. It is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using this, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. A service endpoint can be part of a continuously available service hosted by IIS, or it can be a service hosted in an application.

What is XMPP? An open XML technology for real-time communication. It is a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data.

WCF belongs to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack, while XMPP can be primarily classified under "Container Tools".

Bluebeam Software, Heimdal Security, and ticketportal are some of the popular companies that use WCF, whereas XMPP is used by Mendix, Vidyo.io, and Relayo. WCF has a broader approval, being mentioned in 15 company stacks & 15 developers stacks; compared to XMPP, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.

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What is WCF?

It is a framework for building service-oriented applications. Using this, you can send data as asynchronous messages from one service endpoint to another. A service endpoint can be part of a continuously available service hosted by IIS, or it can be a service hosted in an application.

What is XMPP?

It is a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data.

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What are some alternatives to WCF and XMPP?

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.

REST

An architectural style for developing web services. A distributed system framework that uses Web protocols and technologies.

gRPC

gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking...

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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