Re: [DotGNU]Jabber - How to make it Official

[Adam Theo]

On Tue, 2002-04-02 at 11:56, Chris Smith wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 April 2002 14:53, Chris Smith wrote:
> 
> > The VRS itself uses XML via SOAP or XML-RPC, so building
> > a Jabber Bridge would be fairly trivial.
> 
> In fact, having just (loosely) read the Jabber protocol 
> spec and drawn a few diagrams, I'm quite excited by this.
> 
> If all dotGNU network components (for want of a better
> description) support Jabber, then inter-opperability 
> between different development efforts is guaranteed 
> (SEE to VRS etc).
> 
> Is there a service/resource discovery mechanism within Jabber?
> And can someone point me at a suitable spec (as techie as
> you like) so I can do a quick digest and review it's
> suitability for some VRS work I've got to chomp through?

There is a resource discovery system. if you know the address@hidden you
want to contact, you can then query what resources they have running.
And as for service discovery: there is a crude users directory
component, called "JUD". as I said, it is crude, and us Jabberites
really need a better one. The good thing about building a new one is
that the protocol already supports at least most of that advanced stuff,
it's just a matter of making some hard code that makes the protocol do
what you want to do for search and discovery.

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