Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Is someone interested in the ACS 4.x Java Chat Module for openacs 3.2.x?

I spent some time today looking at the jabberd library. It has some of the same stuff as libjabber does, what is missing is the jconn structure which maitains info about a jabber connection. Hmm, how do they do this in jabberd. Probably I would need to re-write the connection parts of the client/component.

The benefit of writing a module that can act as a component is that then AOLserver/OACS becomes a jabber component which can offer services to any jabber server. These services can be anything, and might be easier to do in our favorite software than in perl/java/...