[JDEV] Jabber - Scripting Language

[Stephen D. Williams]

"Emswiler, Mike" wrote:
> 
> I would suggest that Jabber take one of two approaches:
> 
> 1. (the easiest) "adopt" an official language.  This should be an existing,
> open-source, and preferably widely used language such as Python (my vote) or
> Perl (if we want to scare people away Jabber :)
> 2. define a client scripting host interface.  This is a bit more complex,
> but far more flexible.  A binary specification for the host interface should
> be developed, allowing anyone to write a scripting engine "plug-in" thereby
> allowing any scripting language to be used.  A particular client (such as
> WinJab) could be used as a reference implementation for the client scripting
> host interface.

I was thinking of adding Python/JPython to a client I was building to
provide scripting.  While I'm not a Python enthusiast, my friends have
convinced me that I will be.  Since it has great support for Java, it
makes a nice dual environment choice.

The interface idea is definitely another useful possibility.

> 
> Client-scripting can really be used by the client all over the place, but I
> think the one feature most everyone wants is the ability to add custom
> message handlers for automated or gui processing to easily extend *any*
> client and to allow people to focus on the business logic of their needs
> (client extensions) without worrying about the client itself (Inboxes,
> History, notifications, blah blah) or which client the user wishes (WinJab,
> Gabber, etc.)

Definitely, required at some point soon.

sdw

> 
> PGMillard had some good ideas on this front ... Peter ... was there ever a
> JIG or something formed or proposed for this yet?
> 
> Thanks,
> MikeE
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Bradley [mailto:TBradley at jabber.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 2:26 PM
> To: 'jdev at jabber.org'
> Subject: RE: [JDEV] Jabber - Scripting Language
> 
> > Has there ever been any discussion of a client side scripting
> > language for
> > Jabber?  I'm thinking of something along the lines of mIRC's scripting
> > language for the IRC protocol.
> 
> That was the source of my original interest in the
> Tcl client (zABBER).  My goal was to have a client
> that had a scripting language interpreter so you
> could write scripts to do special handling of events.
> But, alas, it's not that advanced.
> 
> To answer your question, I don't think there's been
> serious discussion in the past year about a single
> "official" Jabber client scripting language.  It
> would probably be impossible to get everyone to
> agree what that language should be.
> 
> Todd.
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