[JDEV] Jabber vs Trillian, why not Jabber IN Trillian?

[Tijl Houtbeckers]

Mattias Campe <mattias.campe at rug.ac.be> wrote on 21-11-2002 14:30:32:
>
>- Would there be any reason why not supporting Jabber (because I 
>really don't see a reason at all, it's the only protocol next to irc 
>that they wouldn't have to reverse engineer)? A friend of me told me 
>that Microsoft actually notified Trillian that they would change their 
>protocol?? But of course, I don't know if that last one is true.
>
>- Wouldn't there be some hack to get Jabber into Trillian? I thought 
>the developers of Trillian were working on an API or sth. like that, 
>so that Jabber could be supported in Trillian.

You could try using the MSN2Jabber ( http://www.jabberstudio.
org/projects/MSN2Jabber ) since you can have multiple MSN accounts 
running in Trillian. Don't know if it works and if it does.. it's very 
hacky ofcourse ;) 

I've looked once on their forum, and there was a sticky thread by an 
admin about wich features were on the TODO list, Jabber was on it as 
well (by request). So were a zillion other things. 

On MSN notifying trillian: that's a true story. MSN/Microsoft has 
nowhere near the parania about things like Jabber as for example AOL. 
In fact on an unofficial basis we've talked with them about it and they 
called it a "very intresting technology". I also believe Jabber inc. 
has a reasonably good relationship with them. (Jabber inc. also offers 
their own MSN transport) 

-- 
Tijl Houtbeckers
Java/J2ME/GPRS Software Engineer @ Splendo
The Netherlands