[JDEV] A Jabber 'client deamon'

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>From: Jan Fabry <jan.fabry at vsknet.be>
>Reply-To: jdev at jabber.org
>To: jdev at jabber.org
>Subject: [JDEV] A Jabber 'client deamon'
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:18:33 +0100
>
>Hello,
>
>I'll try to explain my idea, but feel free to ask questions if anything
>is unclear!
>
>I was thinking about some sort of 'client deamon' for Jabber. The
>situation I'm confronted with is the following:
>
>I have a website running MyPHPNuke (a Content Management System -
>visitors can enter news, which I then review and eventually post on the
>page - in some ways similar to Slashdot). Every time someone enters a
>new news item, I would like to be notified of this. Jabber seems like a
>good way to do this.
>
>However, there is a problem. Every time I want to send a message, a
>connection to Jabber should be open. I can do this with Perl, but I
>still need to sleep() some time, because I'm waiting for the Jabber
>server to respond. When the connection is open, I can send my message.
>After this, the connection is closed, and the page can finish loading.
>
>Schematic view:
>1. User submits new story
>2. Server starts new process to handle this request
>3. Server process opens connection to Jabber server
>4. Server process sends message
>5. Server process closes connection to Jabber server
>6. Server process returns page to user
>
>Can you see the problem? Steps 3 and 5 should be avoidable.
>
>My suggestion is:
>
>At boot time, some sort of 'client deamon' is started, and it logs in to
>the Jabber server. When I want a PHP script to send a message to me, it
>only does a small call to some application, that then connects to the
>daemon to send it.
>
>Maybe there this should work in two ways: I can send a message to 'the
>machine', to execute some task.
>
>I'm sorry if all this sounds confusing, but I don't know how to explain
>it otherwise.
>
>Greetings,
>
>Jan Fabry
[...]

I don't know if you've read my post "Thesis work: Jabber news watcher", but 
I actually would like to do the same but than for my thesis. The first 
problem is that I don't know if my professers will let me do that subject 
(already e-mailed them, but for the moment haven't received anything yet). 
Second problem is that if I would get it, I only start the programming next 
acadamic year (maybe already in July, otherwise it will be October). The 3rd 
problem is that - because I have to prove that I can set up and implement a 
progrom - that I'll have to do most of the things myself (of course I would 
need the help of [JDEV], because I will have a lot of questions I think). 
The advantage is that if I want to pass through my "license in informatics" 
I have to have a working example, with fully commented code and with a lot 
of explanation so other Jabber-users can easily use it.

Mattias Campe

PS Mocht je een private e-mail zenden naar mij op cobnet at hotmail.com, dan 
kan je dat gerust in het Nederlands doen ;-), kwestie dat we elkaar beter 
zouden verstaan.

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