[JDEV] Question from a student

[Ralph Meijer]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:18:26AM -0800, sireesha vudatha wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is Sireesha, a student who is a beginner in Jabber and I want to
> use Jabber  in a  course project where an automated agent (like a bot) will
> automatically answer the questions typed in by a user by looking into the
> database of questions and answers. (I want to use Java or perl and mysql for
> creating the database... in the project).I had looked into the various sources
> like documentation, different articles etc..
> 
> But, I am not able to understand how I can use Jabber to link to the database
> and how it can be used to achieve what I want to do in my project...
> 
> Can anyone offer me suggestions or ideas or information so that I can proceed
> in my project?
> 
> (My questions may be trivial but please help me out as I am new to this area..)

You could write a plugin for chatbot, a perl based jabber bot. See
http://chatbot.jabberstudio.org/

There are some example plugins, some with database interface.

Hope that helps,

Ralphm