You can add elements to presence stanzas!
Ths means you can have the and tags human readable, and pass machine parsable information around via additional stanzas. We could definitely use Presence for system montitoring.

POE XMPP code:
http://www.jabberstudio.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pcj/POE-Component-Jabber/examples/XMPPTester.pl?view=markup

POE::Lego, put a small POE::Lego stub at the edge, with enough logic to pull down the modules from a server bot. edit all modules centrally. pubsub would be hott.

  1. Agent connects
  2. Agents disco’s a “lego-server”
  3. Agent pubsubs to lego-server.. (something to catch future published updates).. Disconnected operation though…
  4. Cache it locally
  5. and then pubsub for updates
  1. which redo an eval