[jdev] Component basics

[Matt Tucker]

Brad,

> My first idea for a component is allowing 
> offline status messages, so you can see a message like "Out 
> of the office until Tuesday" for someone who is offline.  

Actually, that's already part of JEP-0012:
http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0012.html

Jive Messenger and many other servers support that protocol so you'd
just need to expose it in a client.

Regards,
Matt