[JDEV] Server problem and JabberBeans problem

[Matt Tucker]

Adrian,

> Also, I'm trying to make a Jabber Client (I'm not a great programmer),
> I'm using JabberBeans.  I want to be able to send an object within a
> <message> tag.

You'll need to encode the serialized object as text. It's fairly easy to
do so:

  ByteArrayOutputStream byteStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
  ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(byteStream);
  out.writeObject(value);
  // Note: you'll need to track down a method to encode data as base-64.
  // There are quite a few of them though.
  String encodedVal =
StringUtils.encodeBase64(byteStream.toByteArray());
  // Now, add the encoded value as an x element of the message.
  // Finally, decoding on the other end looks similar, except in
reverse.


I'm not sure how you can add and get custom elements in JabberBeans,
though.

Regards,
Matt