2009/8/15 Martin Zruban <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I recently came across the Vysper project and I was thinking about > implementing a gateway for other IM protocols. To be precise, I thought > about implementing it as the XEP-0100 extension [1] and I considered > inspiring myself with Kraken IM plugin for Openfire [2] . Since I'm new to > Vysper, I'd like to ask: > Has anyone tried or considered implementing the gateway, if so, any tips? > Is it the right approach to try implementing it as a XEP?
I'd propose a different approach. At first, we are talking about proxying non-XMPP client messages to a XMPP server here. This involves translating a third-party client behavior into 'proper' XMPP. You have to re-write Vysper's "stanza frontend". Handlers, which are the essence of our XEP architecture, instead deal with XMPP stanzas only. But there is another way to tackle this. Please look into org.apache.vysper.stanzasession.StanzaSessionContext It's another way besides the 'standard' MINA based session context which is parsing the XMPP line protocol Just like this class you can write your own SessionContext frontend (or extend what's already there), generate stanzas from the protocol you want to provide a gateway for and inject them into Vysper. This is for starters. Do you find this helpful? If you have more questions, please keep asking. What's the protocol you want a gateway for? Just a quick note at the end. Everything you contribute must be your own code. Inspiration and reverse engineering is ok, of course, verbatim copies of code are problematic. Have fun, Bernd
