[JDEV] Webpresence revisited [Was: JabberCentral]

[Michael Brown]

> >> Can you point me at who is doing work with forum integration?
> >>
> > The people from the Psi forum are working on it ( Invision Power Board
> > ), Bart van Bragt here is from phpBB (if he ever finds the time..).
> > Delphi-forums have done this on commercial basis. Most of us know about
> > JabberStudio I think (code from that could be reused for portals I
> > think). I asume Jive have made their smack library with the goal of
> > once integrating it with Jive-forums too.. and I've heard more of these
> > things in the passings..
>
> Yup, integration for Jive Messenger (server), Smack (OSS client
> library), and Jive Forums (as well as Jive KnowledgeBase) is an
> important planned addition to our product lineup. Smack is already
> finding its place in adding IM/Chat to Java websites and we'll be
> releasing an open source JSP-based webchat client that uses Smack (and
> included in it's distribution) soon.

Thanks for the pointers.  When I have time I will follow up - but what I am
mainly interested in is some sort of simple system for displaying Jabber
presence info on webpages.  This is a feature you can see in almost every
forum system for the big four (ICQ/AIM/MSN/Yahoo) - the icon beside each
user post to show if they are online or not.  From my experience it is very
hard to talk forum/portal web authors into including Jabber support without
this.

Can anyone tell me if someone is working on this for any of the above?

Ages ago I wrote up a proposal to do this via a transport in JEP format
(which Peter wouldn't accept despite my constant nagging) but I have had
little feedback on it or seen any alternative ideas put forward:

http://www.yabber.org/jep/webpresence/webpresence.xml (IE6 renders this with
the XSLT - not sure about other browsers)

If we can get a Jabber icon to show up beside even a small fraction of user
posts on phpBB/phpNuke sites then it is going to drastically raise the
awareness of Jabber on the web.

Michael.