[JDEV] Jabber Bot / Auto Contact Bot

[Iain Shigeoka]

On 4/2/03 7:12 PM, "Edward Tsai" <edwardt at ucla.edu> wrote:

> Which SDK / software would be the best to use / develop on to work this?
> Perhaps I need to find an existing "bot" and customize it, or is this a
> project that would be better start from scratch? My main programming skills
> are in Java and I have used some Perl before :)

Hi,

If you write your bot as a normal client, I'd suggest using Smack. It's a
simple to use Java client library released under an Apache derived license:

http://www.jivesoftware.com/xmpp/smack

We've been working on making the API as simple to use as possible. Combined
with some other Java libraries out there, it should be pretty
straightforward to implement your bot.

-iain