[JDEV] OpenAether public announcement

[Andrew Kornak]

Justin,

    The RDBMS component sounds a lot like the xdb_sql project.
Perhaps you could use this as a base if your project isn't too far along?

Regards,

Andrew Kornak
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Kirby" <justink at rochester.rr.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 4:21 AM
Subject: [JDEV] OpenAether public announcement


> I am officially announcing the OpenAether project. Its been around for a
> while, and some of you probably already know about it.
> 
> You can check it out at http://www.openaether.org
> 
> Its goal is simply to provide as much functionality for the jabber
> network as possible. This includes RDBMs access and Calendaring, among
> other things.
> 
> The obvious first step was to design a flexible base, e.g. a core jabber
> library. Which is ready for people to start hacking on now. 
> 
> The next step is a component for database access along with a client.
> 
> Several interesting tangents have happened along the way. A barnyard
> (e.g. Snort) plugin to send alerts as jabber messages. A process
> watcher, that sends a message when it terminates (handy for those large
> builds, think mozilla). And (eventually) a sendmail API replacement,
> mainly to get bugzilla to send jabber messages instead of emails.
> 
> I have set up tracking bugs to track the protocol conformance of the
> core library.
> http://www.openaether.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6
> http://www.openaether.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17
> 
> For a quick and dirty intro on howto hack with this library:
> http://www.openaether.org/docs/hacking_oajabber.html
> 
> Language: C++
> OS: linux, win32(eventually)
> Dependancies: XercesC, CommonC++, Mozilla(optional)
> 
> Things needed:
> - win32 maintainer
> - people to abuse the code and file bugs (also fix them ;) )
> 
> As always feel free to send any questions, comments, criticisms and/or
> rants my way.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Justin Kirby
> 
> 
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