On Sunday 30 March 2008 03:51:09 pm Arup Malakar wrote:
> On 3/31/08, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 March 2008 01:49:26 pm Arup wrote:
> > > I am setting up my own ejabberd server. Is there any gtalk transport
> > > similar to yahoo or msn for ejabberd? I want to login to gtalk server
> > > using my existing gtalk username and password in my  ejabberd setup.
> >
> > This is entirely unnecessary:  Google Talk and ejabberd both provide
> > XMPP. Just use your JID on ejabberd and you'll still be able to contact
> > Google Talk
> > without a whole lot of hassle.
>
> Yeah I agree, using s2s communication, users from a jabber server can talk
> to gtalk users directly. But what I was looking at was to be able to add
> gtalk as a transport.
> So that users can discover the gtalk service and register for it.
>
> Advantages:
> His buddylist which he already had in gtalk will appear magically. Asking
> the user to add all his
> buddies again will be too much I guess.
> Also when the user already has a gtalk account he will be more comofortable
> maintaing it. He would be more comfortable adding new friends in his gtalk
> account rather than
> adding it to "yet another jabber account" which might go away. I think it
> makes sense to have a transport for gtalk
> like we have for msn/yahoo/icq etc.

Why in the world would anybody need more than one or two JID (one business, 
one personal) in the first place?  You're over-engineering a problem that 
could be solved by picking a JID and sticking with it.

-- 
Paul Johnson
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