[JDEV] jabberd2 + transports

[maqi at jabberstudio.org]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Dawid Szymanski wrote:

> Are there any transports that are able to compile againt jabberd2?

All current transports are run as a module within jabberd14 but can
connect as a Jabber component to any Jabber server.

- why jabberd14 at all then?
The transports use some parts of the jabberd14 code (XML parser, Jabber
packet libs...).

- how do the transports within jabberd14 connect to jabberd2?
Via TCP/IP and the connect/accept mechanism. The procedure is the same as
with external components and jabberd14. You setup the component with a
"small" XML configuration file containing the component/transport's
configuration and a service section containing an "<uplink/>" and
"<connect>...</connect>" section. This tells the jabberd14 which runs the
component to connect via TCP/IP to another Jabber server (which of course
has to listen on the selected IP and match passwords). BTW the whole thing
is internally and is neither a c2s (client2server) nor a s2s
(server2server) connection.

Both the documentation for AIM-t and JIT provide further details on the
procedure.

Regards