[JDEV] Jabber Client Design Tutorial

[Stuart Dortenzio]

Thanks. I really appreciate the help.

Cheers,
Stuart


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From: Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at jabber.org>@jabber.org on 09/28/2001 12:59 PM

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I have several here:

http://www.saint-andre.com/jabber/xml/

Peter

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On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Stuart Dortenzio wrote:

>
> Can someone please help!
>
> I sent a request to the admin group for a working sample of a jabber.xml server file and got no response. We are trying to setup a jabber server for conferencing and can't get it to work. Does anyone have a copy of a working jabber.xml config file such as the one used on the jabber.org server?
>
> Thanks,
> Stuart
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> From: Dave Waite <mass at akuma.org>@jabber.org on 09/28/2001 10:44 AM CST
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>
> Michael Brown wrote:
>
> >
> >>Perhaps as a first step we can find some agreement about terminology
> >>("roster" vs. "contact list" vs. "buddy list", "transport" vs. "gateway",
> >>etc.)
> >>
> >
> >I actually prefer "Contact List" but "Roster" seems to be well defined for
> >Jabber - which I can live with - although it does sound a little like there
> >should be some house-hold chores involved :-)
> >
> Contact list is my favorite. All three imply that only Instant Messaging
> users are in the List.
>
> >I've always been confused between "Transports"/"Gateways"/"Agents" so if
> >someone could clear that up for me that would be great.
> >
> I'll take a stab; how about:
>
> Entity - Any thing which interacts with the Jabber system, and/or which
> is available to be interacted with by other Entities in the Jabber system.
> Jabber IM User - An entity using the Jabber system as an
> Instant-messaging platform.
> Component - An entity which has a trusted relationship with a Jabber
> server, and which provides some set of services to Entities (either to
> Jabber IM Users or to other Components)
>
> Gateway - A component which provides direct access to non-Jabber
> services to Jabber IM Users. No distinction is made to whether the
> component also allows a mapping from the non-Jabber service to access
> all of Jabber
> Agent - A component which provides a mapping between a non-Jabber
> services and the Jabber system by authenticating with that remote system
> on behalf of a Jabber User.
> Transport - An agent which specifically provides access to a non-Jabber
> Instant Messaging system.
>
> Examples:
>
>     * Jabber conferencing would be a component, because it is providing
>       a native Jabber service
>     * IRC access would be considered a gateway since IRC is a remote
>       service, but there is no registration required
>     * Access to an IMAP mailbox (some sort of jabber-biff) would be
>       considered an agent, since registration is required
>     * Access to AIM or Yahoo! would be considered a transport
>
> How is that? :-)
>
> -David Waite
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