[JDEV] EtherX - What's the protocol?

[Mark Wilcox]

Mark Zamoyta wrote:

> Thanks for the replies.
>
>  If I wanted to communicate with Jabber users via my IM server, what would be
> the best way to go?  I'm thinking of taking EtherX and integrating it into
> my system.  Would this work, and how can I get some info on EtherX's
> protocol?

I would forget about EtherX. Instead my recommendation would be to just emmulate
the Jabber protocol itself.   The basic docs are at http://docs.jabber.org. The
protocol itself is not TCP based, it's XML based and transport agnostic ( well
we'll find out just how much so, if you accomplish this feat wirelessly).

Mark

> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> > or, as an alternative:
> >
> > Do you want to support the jabber 'server to server' protocol on your own
> server
> > so it can impersonate a jabber server, masquerade its users as jabber
> users, and
> > allow the local users to send messages out to jabber users?
> >
> > -David Waite
> >
> > temas wrote:
> >
> > > Just so I'm clear before I make a more full reply, what your saying is
> > > this:
> > >
> > > You have an IM system you want to bridge to Jabber, and rather than
> > > making a single transport that could be distributed to other people, you
> > > want to make a transport that you just run on your servers
> > > in front of your setup.  This way admins only have to alias the
> > > transport to you and not actually setup a transport.  Correct?
> > >
> > > --temas
> > >
> > > On 26 Apr 2001 16:25:02 -0700, Mark Zamoyta wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I was thinking of writing a Jabber Transport to my company's IM
> system, but
> > > > the problem is getting the transport installed on 35,000+ Jabber
> servers,
> > > > handling transport installation problems, making sure the transport
> gets
> > > > bundled in with future Jabber servers, etc...
> > > >
> > > > I'm thinking it's alot easier for my company's IM system to "pretend"
> to be
> > > > a Jabber Server.
> > > >
> > > > Can I just integrate EtherX into my current system?   Is the EtherX
> protocol
> > > > documented anywhere?
> > > >
> > > > I'm interested in any ideas concerning this!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Mark
> > > > www.airstrategy.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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