[JDEV] Presence Utilities

[Matt Mankins]

Howdy.

I quickly packaged up a few utilities that I've been using for the past 
couple of months and placed them here:

http://www.media.mit.edu/~mankins/presence/

They're not really much, but figured I should share anyhow. :)

1) Automatic Roster Population


The idea here is to have a roster populated for people before they login. 
The admin sets up a text file that gets converted into an SQL table 
structure. In xdb_auth it reads the sql and sets up the users' roster 
accordingly. 


2) Watcher presence aggregator

This guy is a daemon that sits around and polls various urls at timed 
intervals looking for presence information. The urls return XML that 
relates users to presence. You can use this to extend presence beyond
those that use a jabber (chat) client.


Let me know if you have questions and things,

Mankins
htpt://www.media.mit.edu/~mankins/