[JDEV] integrating video conferencing to jabber

[ericson machacon]

Hi all!

i am just a newbie jabber developer so i hope you'll spend time answering my
newbie questions.

our company is developing its own e-collaboration software using open source
tools. it will be first deployed in our company first in order to facilitate
communication between our office in the philippines and our mother company in
japan. the final version of the software will have an IM, a video conferencing
module, a whiteboard and a presentation module. it is much like lotus' sametime.

the first increment of the project is to integrate a jabber client and VIC, an
open source video conferencing tool written in C. VIC already has its own
protocol so we're thinking to create a jabber client UI which can toggle VIC. My
question is, is this possible?I mean to integrate VIC without 'touching' jabberd
yet?

can you likewise suggest which jabber client library is easiest (in C++) to use
for windows?for multiple platforms?

Thanks a lot!   

ericson