[JDEV] beginning

[John Hebert]

Peter,

Welcome aboard. I think the reason why you didn't get a reply to your
initial post was that the question you asked was either a little too
vague or would take a little too long to properly answer. I wanted to
respond but I wasn't sure how to begin.

I would recommend that you begin by looking at the source code for some
Jabber client that appeals to you. Are your software modules all written
in C++? What language do you want to use to parse the Jabber XML
streams? PHP? C++? Something else?

Your second question: A lot of the documentation is out of sync, but the
problem is being addressed as you can tell from posts to this mailing
list. Your experience with PHP would be valuable in the effort with the
PHP jabberlib. How about contacting that author/group directly?

Good luck!

John Hebert

Greenman wrote:
> 
> Ya. Newbie again. Hate it when that happens.
> 
> I'm looking for info to get me started. I sent my first mail to the list
> two days ago, but doesn't look like it worked cause it didn't pitch up in
> my digest. I'm now on normal mode and I'll try again.
> 
> I need to know where to begin. I have to design a decently sized software
> system which uses Jabber as it's main messaging platform.
> 
> Although I envisage us building slightly lower level customisations in the
> future, we will initially just be making all our software modules work as
> clients. All our communication will just be embedded within normal jabber
> messages.
> 
> My knowledge of XML streams at the moment is minimal. To make things worse,
> were working in C++ after 2+ years of PHP - so I'm rusty.
> 
> Now my main question: XML streams
> 
> I look through the php jabberlib, and see that you can just open a socket to
> server:port/something.xml?param1=xxx&param2=yyy
> 
> This surprised me. When I download the server libs, I don't see any of the
> .xml files that the lib actually references. I check the jpg and the
> parameter names passed do not actually seem to conform with the names in
> the xml spec.
> 
> Can someone explain what this is ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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