[jdev] Anonymous accounts or automatic unique resources

[Matthew A. Miller]

Wojtek wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> I'd like to broadcast some events between my applications through Jabber.
> I don't want to care about account for each application instance.
>
> I consider two solutions:
>   1) annonymous accounts and dedicated chat room (preferred)
>   2) one account and unique resorces allocated by server (sending 
> messages to all online resources of the account)
>
> How can I do this with jabberD 1.4.3 or 2.x?
> Are there any server components that will do this for me?
>
I don't think jabberd 1.4.3 can do either off-the-shelf (but I could be 
wrong), but XMPP-compliant servers (including jabberd2) should support 
unique server-allocated resources via resource binding[1].  You could 
then use a chat room, using the server-generated resource for the 
nickname (provided all room occupants come from the same server).


-  LW

[1] Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core - Resource 
Binding <http://www.jabber.org/ietf/draft-ietf-xmpp-core-23.html#bind>