[JDEV] transports dev

[dlb]

I'm interested in developing a module which will enable
clients developed using MacroMedia's Flash5 to connect to a
jabber server.  Flash utilizes a null byte to delimit each
transaction with the server and is incompatible with
jabber's native socket protocol.

My questions..
would it be appropriate to integrate this module as a form
of transport ?  The Flash clients would use Jabber's native
XML protocol. The only transformations required would be at
the session level ; primarily in stripping null bytes
following Flash derived message packets and appending nulls
to messages deriving from the server.

What I'd like to determine is whether a transport interface
to the server is the best way of approaching this - or
whether a stand-alone component would be as effective.  This
is a pretty trivial process, would I be incurring
unnecessary overhead and complexity in integrating this as a
transport ?  Can transports usually support as many
concurrent user's as a straight jabber connection ?

_also which elements of the documentation are appropriate to
this area. I haven't found anything which explicitly
discussed transport development -though I may not have
recognized what I was looking at. I  Have found net::jabber
and will be looking into this

many questions ..

thanks
David