[jdev] Lan chat

[mame louk]

> Take a look at iChat / Trillian / Miranda, that use ZeroConf networking to
> discover other Jabber clients on the network.

Hi again,

I accidenlty wrote to one person, so here are the mails (useful I think)

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Thanks for the suggestion. If you have little time : your suggestion
opened others questions :-)

Those IM use zeroconf to find other clients : finally they connect to
each other instead of using a server?

I was thinking of using multicast (through a lib since I'm not a good
network programmer), but do you think using zeroconf will be better ?
Isn't multicast is suitted to a lan chat ? (a lot of users in the same
room, it seems to me more simple)

And at last but not least question : Can I use jabber to communicate
from client to client? (simple encapsulation of data, but I wanted to
use a standardized  encapsulation)

Thanks again
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answer from Tijl Houtbeckers
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Clients connect directly to each other. The protocol is Jabber based but
not officially documented anywhere. ZeroConf uses multicasting (it's
multicasting DNS). There are plenty of libs for this.


> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:10:49 +0200, mame louk <mamelouk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi to all,
> >
> > I am currently thinking how to develop a network chat client, like
> > Borgchat (free, but not open & only on windows).
> >
> > I was wondering if I can use the jabber protocol, without server ?
> > Using multicast, with the ivy bus for example, & using jabber for
> > formatting the output data.
> >
> > Is this right ? (a good idea ?)
> > Can I do this with any jabber lib?
> >
> > Any help will be very appreciated,
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Mehdi
> >
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