So I built what is an instant messaging bot using the Smack API and the Openfire XMPP server. Doing it is pretty simple of you read the documentation and Smack’s developer notes. The bot relies on a queue-like object that Smack gives you called a PacketCollector. All you need to do is log in to [...]
Building an IM Bot with the Smack API. Avoid setting Roster Permissions
November 23rd, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Java · JSJaC · Openfire · PacketCollector · PacketFilter · Roster · Smack · XMPP
Setting up JSJaC with Openfire 3.5.2
October 14th, 2008 10 Comments
I am using Openfire, an XMPP (Jabber) server, to facilitate instant messaging in a closed system I am building. Part of my design had users rely on browsers as instant messaging (IM) clients. As Meebo showed, it can be done quite well and an open source JavaScript library, JSJaC, apparently provides this ability. JSJaC is [...]
Tags: Apache httpd · JavaScript · JSJaC · mod_proxy · Openfire · XMPP