Mailing-List: contact user-help@struts.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <user@struts.apache.org>
Received-SPF: pass (hermes.apache.org: local policy)
Message-ID: <4278FABE.4000701@mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 12:39:26 -0400
From: Erik Weber <erikweber@mindspring.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Struts Users Mailing List <user@struts.apache.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] Recommendation of Instant Messagging System
References: <1301d01c55087$1498c350$0a02010a@mail2world.com>
In-Reply-To: <1301d01c55087$1498c350$0a02010a@mail2world.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I just finished putting together a system with a Swing client and 
combined services over XMPP and HTTP.

I think Leon's suggestion of doing your own is not bad, if you are good 
with Sockets, ServerSockets, XML APIs and Threads (find a good tutorial 
on building a chat system such as in the ubiquitous "Thinking in Java"). 
There is also JMS which gives you a low-level core. If you want 
something higher level, just get Smack from jivesoftware.com, which will 
give you an OO interface to Jabber (XMPP). Then get jabberd from 
jabber.org. jabberd 1.4  is small, written in C and gets the job done 
for what you are talking about, so I would start with that. They are 
working on the 2.0 "enterprise" version.

I will warn you that while Smack is a great library (you'll get classes 
such as "Chat", "Packet", "Message", "Presence", etc.), there are some 
pitfalls related to Threading to watch out for. I rewrote about a half 
dozen of the core classes. Fortunately, Smack operates with just two 
main disptach Threads so once you spend some time with the PacketReader 
and XMPPConnection classes, you'll figure it out. Apache license, too.

Erik


masegui wrote:

>The requirements are these:
>1. A user has a list of the other users in the system. He can click a
>button that initiates a conversation with the selected user. The other
>user can accept or not the conversation. If accepts, a "chat room" is
>opened and now then can have a conversation. The rooms only accept 2
>people. We would like a user to be able to have several conversations at
>a time, but each conversation only between 2 people.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Miquel Angel Segui
>
>  
>
>><-----Original Message-----> 
>>From: Leon Rosenberg
>>Sent: 4/5/2005 10:50:38 AM
>>To: user@struts.apache.org
>>Subject: Re: [OT] Recommendation of Instant Messagging System
>>
>>if your only functionality is to allow users to send each other
>>    
>>
>messages 
>  
>
>>which are embedded in the site (html, or something, but no 
>>standalone-desktop solutions) forget about existing systems and 
>>implement it by yourself. 
>>I have implemented dozens of such systems over the time, it's normally 
>>about 100 locs, much less effort than an integration of an existing 
>>system is. 
>>
>>maybe you could tell us a bit more, about the requirements of the 
>>system, so we could give you more specific answer. 
>>
>>regards 
>>Leon 
>>
>>On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:13 +0200, Miquel Angel wrote: 
>>    
>>
>>>We are developing an application (struts 1.1 + Tomcat 5.5 + Java
>>>      
>>>
>1.4). One 
>  
>
>>>of the requirements is to implement an instant messaging system for
>>>      
>>>
>the 
>  
>
>>>users of the site (the system should not be very complex). Do you
>>>      
>>>
>mind to 
>  
>
>>>share your experience in using this system. We are looking for free
>>>      
>>>
>or non 
>  
>
>>>free systems. 
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance. 
>>>
>>>Miquel Angel Segui 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org 
>>>For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org 
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org 
>>For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org 
>>
>>. 
>>    
>>
>
>  
>

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@struts.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@struts.apache.org