[jdev] SPPS and external components

[Ralph Meijer]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 04:04:40PM +0200, Norman Rasmussen wrote:
> On 1/24/06, Jacek Konieczny <jajcus at jajcus.net> wrote:
> > Things that need to be solved:
> >
> > 1. redirecting SPPS queries addressed to users to the external
> > component.
> > 2. providing the external component with roster information.
> 
> The way I see it, by the time you've written code (for each server) to
> 'filter' out those pubsub packets and send them to the pubsub
> component, you might as well have added spps directly to the server.
> 
> It saves having to write the roster sharing code too.  The only other
> reason I can think of why you'd want to 'share your roster' is if you
> want multiple identity jids under a single account.  (i.e.
> meta-accounts).

I think that jabberd 2 has another component protocol that would allow
this. You can route stanzas according to the namespace of the child of
iqs. I haven't had the time to try that out, though.

-- 
Groetjes,

ralphm