[jdev] Component, Gateway or S2S?

[Alexey Nezhdanov]

В сообщении от 17 Март 2004 13:14 Daniel Tietze написал(a):
> Hi, all.
>
> I am currently looking to add XMPP connectivity to
> our (proprietary) EIM application. Specifically, I
> want to add an extension to our IM server allowing
> users of our IM client to communicate with users
> in the Jabber/XMPP world.
>
> For a number of reasons, I do *not* want to add
> support for connecting to our EIM server using
> any Jabber-compliant client.
>
> I realize that what I would need to do is announce
> users of our EIM service to the XMPP world and
> deliver presence and message packets to XMPP-based
> clients via a connection to some XMPP server.
>
> What would be the "correct" way of designing this?
> Would I be developing a "component" (i.e. using
> the "jabber:component" namespace to talk to the
> XMPP server), or would I rather be looking at
> Server-to-server support (the "jabber:server"
> namespace)? Is S2S actually supported in current
> XMPP servers or would I be limiting myself by
> doing it this way?
>

Since we can only discuss here jabber part of such gateway it's going pretty 
easy to lay down some guidelines.

Your users will probably be seen from jabber space as nodes of some host.
As far as I can imagine this is the only reasonable way to go.
So you will be writing a gateway. It can be writed either as server or 
component but the latter is much more easy since the most work (routing, 
server authentication, dialback and such) is already done.

> I guess I *could* also use "jabber:client" and have
> our IM server masquerade as X number of clients,
> but somehow that does not appear to be the cleanest
> (and most resource-saving) approach.
>
> Our IM system is 100% Java - is there a Java library
> (LGPL, or commercially licensed/licensable) that could
> get us nearer towards our goal?

http://www.jabber.org/software/libraries.php

>
> I'd appreciate any helpful pointers on this issue.
>
> Best regards,
>
> 	Daniel

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Alexey Nezhdanov