[JDEV] Worldwide Lexicon project, updated specs online

[matthew c. mead]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 10:37:51AM -0700, Brian McConnell wrote:
> I am interested in recruiting Jabber developers to create IM clients that
> can utilize WWL dictionary and machine translation resources. If you would
> like to contribute to this project, visit us online at
> www.worldwidelexicon.org (the latest version of the client/server spec is
> posted there), or email me at brian at mcconnell.net

It seems to me after reading your description the thing to do is
provide an adaptor between the Jabber communication protocol and
your WWL backend.  The adaptor would basically be a jabber server
(or servers) with a client (or clients) that maintain presence and
each provide XML input/output by using the services of the WWL
backend.  Then if you want to recruit Jabber client developers to
utilize WWL, you aren't asking them to do anything that's necessarily
out of band with the client's standard communication method.  They
simply send a message (albeit formatted correctly) and receive a
response (which they might have to interpret in some manner).

Just a suggestion...



-matt

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