[JDEV] Webpresence revisited [Was: JabberCentral]

[Peter Millard]

Bart van Bragt wrote:
> There are already some online indicators available. The problem with
> these indicators is that most of them work on a site basis. So you need
> one bot/agent in your roster for every site where you want to display
> your presence.
>
> IMO that's not really feasible, that's why we're currently working on
> presence.jabber.org, a service that any user/webmaster can use.

The "correct" way (IMO) to do this is to use the presence-bcc feature available
on most jabber servers. The presence agent's JID would be placed in that section
of the jabber.xml file, and it would get a copy of all presence packets flowing
thru the server.

To "allow" my presence to be published, I would just use the iq:register
protocol to register with this new service, and bam, it would instantly start to
show my presence (it's already receiving it). No subscriptions would be
necessary. If you attempt to build this as a bot, you're going to have problems
scaling it.

pgm.