[JDEV] Access to IRC gateway and/or Jabber Gateway Framework (JGF)

[Peter Saint-Andre]

See also:

http://jig.jabberstudio.org/

/psa

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:59:54PM -0600, David Sutton wrote:
> Hi Angel,
> 
>   I'm the developer who is working on the C version of the IRC-t. The version of the transport you found is broken in 
> many respects and although I have a version that had some of the bugs repaired in, it uses an old and unsupported jabber 
> "protocol" that was never accepted.
> 
>   Saying that, I am already working on its replacement, and phase one sounds like what you are looking for. I'm 
> formalising some of the thoughts/design into documentation to go onto the project site, as well as working on a 
> prototype. I also have an almost completed simple irc-t written in perl, I just need to fix the room/user handler so it 
> doesn't occasionally lose user information. That one is much easier to get to a stable state, and could be used as a 
> proof-of-concept whilst I work on the C version.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   David
> 
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 06:55:40PM -0500, Angel Asencio wrote:
> > Greetings:
> > 
> > Sorry if this issue has been answered before, but I just started working 
> > with Jabber.
> > (If this is supposed to be posted in another mailing list, please let me 
> > know)
> > 
> > I have been requested before the end of December to generate a prototype 
> > that can do the following :
> > 
> > Jabber client <-> Jabber Server <-> IRC Gateway <->  IRC Server <-> IRC 
> > client
> > 
> > Bottomline: Jabber client, through Jabber server, talks to IRC client 
> > located in an IRC server where both servers are located in Solaris 8/9 
> > machines.
> > 
> > I found
> > 
> > /irc-transport-0.1.1-1.40 
> > 
> > /
> > 
> > and the jabber/C expert around here was able to make the contact with
> > Jabberd 1.4 and IRCU 2.x, but no communication yet.
> > 
> > My programming language of preference is Java, so I decided to check out
> > Jabber Gateway Framework ( JGF ) but no binary/source code has been 
> > released.
> > 
> > At least, based on the keywords I chose, the most I could find were the 
> > 1.40 transport
> > and the reference to JGF.
> > 
> > For both of them, the sense I got is "coming soon for 1.4".   I have not 
> > seen any ETA, so I presume that none will be released before the end of 
> > December?
> > 
> > If that is case, is there a way that I could get either working version, 
> > so I could demonstrate the prototype?
> > 
> > Thanks,