[JDEV] jabber component development and jabbercentral

[Nicholas Perez]

Currently, writing components against the 1.4 codebase (externally or 
internally) is just a Bad Idea. Lots of not well thought out cruft has 
been growing like a slime mold over the past couple of years. Things 
have still not been standardized with regards to non-client, non-session 
oriented xmpp/JABBER(tm) entities. Some work has already been covered in 
various projects that seek to alter the way those types of entities 
interact, such as the PXR project (http://pxr.jabberstudio.org). I don't 
offer a solution to this problem, only a different point of view.

We need to address this issue so we don't end up with a fragmented set 
of components that only work with one server. Ideally, there should be a 
protocol for entities not session manager connected.

nick

maqi at jabberstudio.org wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
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>>I found some excellent docs on http://docs.jabber.org, but the site
>>seems to have closed down. Where are the docs now ? It would be great to
>>put them all back online somewhere.
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>Some docs are on
>http://jabberd.jabberstudio.org/1.4/docs/
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>>I read that components can either be internal (does this mean that the
>>code is based heavily on jabberd's ?) or external (totally standalone
>>codebase ?).
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>Yes. Yes.
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>>I think one of the advantages of an internal component is that it can
>>rely on xdb for data storage.
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>No. Any component can use the XDB services the Jabber server it connects
>to provides.
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>Internal components rely on the jabberd 1.4.x's codebase so they are
>generally a bad idea. Use JCR, JECL or some other library to code external
>components.
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>>Is there a "component writing guide" ?
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>http://jabbermanual.jabberstudio.org/test/
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>It's not finished. It is currently undecided what way the docs are going.
>Probably there'll be some Wiki-like pages on jabberdoc.org.
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