[dev] Jabber-client in DIMP?

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Adam Nemeth <aadaam at gmail.com>:

> SAPO has one of the world's largest jabber/XMPP deployment, powered by
> ejabberd. I think it would make them sense if a gmail-like client
> could be embedded in this project, sponsored by them.

I'm not sure telling a company what they should spend their money on  
is a very promising way of implementing this code.
Additionally since it may very well be possible that SAPO is already  
doing something very similar to this in-house.

> I've made a simple jabber client in javascript, there's another in
> comments as well:
> http://jabbermania.blogspot.com/2007/06/jsjabber-educational-client-in.html
> - just to show that it's easy to begin.
>
> The only issue is authentication. If there'd be a way to authenticate
> a jabber client with horde credentials, it could be easily done.
> Possibly a simple client could be put in an iframe,or be part of the
> project.
>
> Also it could be integrated with Turba, showing presence fields for
> certain contacts.
>
> (I'd appreciate an openfire support, but probably ejabberd support -
> since external authentication is done by shellscripts/c programs, not
> in java is easier; I think a larger deployment like SAPO would prefer
> the iframe solution because of ejabberd's built-in high availability
> webserver, but for the most cases there won't be that much users :)
>
> What do you think?
> --
> Aadaam <aadaam at gmail.com>

I think it would be great if you/someone else wanted to work on this.   
Obviously it would be very useful for many people.  But a flat-out  
request for this kind of an application probably isn't going to get  
much done.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]