[JDEV] Net::Jabber & Transports

[David E. Wheeler]

Hi All,

I'm new to Jabber and Jabber development, but am very interested in
beginning development for some projects I'm working on. Specifically,
I've set up my own Jabber server so I can use it for messaging from
within a Perl application I'm developing. But I've got a couple of
questions about getting it all working:

1. My Jabber server is up an working, but doesn't support other
transports - such as ICQ and AIM. How do I configure it so it does? I
tried uncommenting the appropriate <agents> sections, which caused the
Transports I want to show up in Gabber, but the server cored when I
tried to add a user from one of those transports to my Roster.

2. I'm planning to write a fairly simple Transport use Net::Jabber so
that my Perl application can send messages. Unfortunately, the
documentation is a bit thin in Net::Jabber::Transport. Once I connect
with my transport, do I need to maintain a roster, etc.? How can I just
send messages? Here's what I've got:

  my $trans = Net::Jabber::Transport->new;
  $trans->Connect(hostname => 'jabber',
  	          secret => 'test',
	          transportname => 'test'
	         );

  print $trans->Connected ? "We're connected!\n" : "We're not connected
:-(\n";
  # No message gets sent here.
  $trans->MessageSend(to => 'dwTheory at jabber.salon.com',
		      body => "Let's go grab some lunch!");
  $trans->Disconnect;

3. Where shall I send patches for Net::Jabber?

TIA!

David

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