[jdev] SMS transport - more precisions

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:14:11AM +0200, S?bastien Falquier wrote:

> Indeed, I would like to get an external component (JEP-0114 compliant)
> preferably written in Java or C/C++ that would enable XMPP users to send
> SMSs to users of a cellular phones network. This transport component
> should rely directly on the provider's SMS server, using a basic SMS
> client.

AFAIK, there is no such component available as open source. There may be
some commercial SMS transports but of course they are not free....

> If such a kind of component does not exist, as I am new to XMPP, could
> someone give me some clues to develop one: a skelton of a generic
> transport component

The Jabber Gateway Framework might have helped, but I don't think any
code was ever released for it.

You might check out JSO if you want to do component development in Java:

http://jso.jabberstudio.org/

> , some advices on how to build a transport component
> that responds to these needs (Is it necessary to use RFC 3922 in this
> case?)

No. SMS doesn't know anything about CPIM. You would simply do the
transformation directly from XMPP to SMS.

> , contacts that could help me, or anything else that could help me
> to start...

Keep asking questions on this list, look at some of the existing
gateway projects, etc. If you're not wedded to Java, C, or C++, you
might think about writing it in Python using the Twisted libraries,
which seem to be quite popular for writing components and gateways
(PyMSNt, PyAIMt, etc.).

Peter