Forum OpenACS Q&A: Jabber question...

Did anyone install Malte's Jabber module for AOLserver?

http://www.sussdorff-roy.com/jabber/jabber_inst_main_doc.html

At the moment I am looking for the easiest way to support chat inside
our community. An option to moderate a chat would be great, which is
why I suggested IRCG in my previous post:

https://openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?
msg_id=0003Ua&topic_id=11&topic=OpenACS

I wrote a c+tcl module for Jabber. It turns AOLserver into a Jabber client if you wish. The C module is very simple: it exposes every message to the tcl api, calling a pre-defines tcl procedure. You can set this procedure to do anything you like. The tcl module defines this procedure, and also includes a keep-connected procedure that automatically connects on server startup, and re-connects if either the thread dies, or the Jabber server dies. Also included is a method of using Rob Mayoff's threadpool module.

Currently this module is available at: http://zmbh.com/nsjabber/.

I don't quite understand what you mean with aim... (which is probably AOL Instant Messenger...)

David,

I have a working server setup. The AOLserver modules are running inside an OpenACS website at http://pathfinderschool.com/.

The jabber client is setup to allow you to create an account at the website. A test would be to sign up on jabber and then login to the website.

I didn't spend the time to change the data model for OpenACS, otherwise, I would have put an additional field in the parties table to register the jabberID of the user signing up. That way I could associate the two.

To signup:

1. Start a chat session with weblog@pathfinderschool.com/ws.
2. If you are using WinJab, just enter some text to start start the process.
3. The client should respond with a menu of commands.
4. Enter :i for the index.
5. Then enter :a for ACS.
6. Enter :r to register
7. Answer the series of questions to setup your account.
8. Enter :confirm to confirm, or anything else to abort.
9. Try logging in to pathfinderschool.com with your new account.

   Since I wrote this tcl module, I discovered the idea of a 'component'. A component is an Jabber extension. The prefered method for extending jabber is through 'external' components. An external component logs in in a slighlty different way than a client, but is still happens via sending and receiving jabber packets.

   My next push into this area will be to connect AOLserver to the Jabber Server as a component. Components have admin privileges, and can use an manipulate the jabber database. Using my module as a starting point, it should be a one day effort, max, to create a component login.

   All of the tcl code for the signup process is included in the OpenACS tcl module.

Don,

Yeah, this is an older version, say from early September. Also, this version didn't properly upload my bookmarks from Netscape, it seemed to only get the top-level folders.

Really no one is using this site, I use it to test some of the modules I am working on, so I haven't even noticed the speed of the bookmarks module. It really is slow! The computer is the PIII650, so it isn't the one I had slow startup problems with last week.