[Opensim-dev] XMPP Support in OSSL

[dirk husemann]

dirk husemann wrote:
> Kel Cecil wrote:
>> Hello.  I'm a student taking an Open Source Development class at West 
>> Virginia University Institute of Technology.  As part of the class, 
>> we've been asked to make a contribution to the OpenSim project.  After 
>> reading the lists of requested functions for OSSL and talking to a 
>> developer in the IRC channel, I've decided that I would like to add the 
>> XMPP support.
>>
>> Before I start, I wanted to see if any developers would like to offer 
>> thoughts, insight or ideas?
>>   
> excellent idea ;-) (/me is using XMPP with libsl currently). some 
> thoughts:
>
>     * it would be very useful to have the individual servers show up
>       with individual JIDs.
>     * access control via roster for each server
>           o send log messages to those JIDs that are in the roster and
>             are online
>           o accept commands from all JIDs that are in the roster
>     * logging exclusively via XMPP
>
> the above points assume that you are going to use the normal 
> jabber:client subset of XMPP --- which allows us to use normal jabber 
> clients.
actually this would use XMPP instead of the consoles (which are a pain 
to use, i've to say)

the other approach, of course, is using XMPP for the chat subsystem. 
there you'd probably have to make XMPP an XMPP server --- agsXMPP might 
be helpful there as well:

    * JID: firstname.lastname at userserver
    * roster == friends

also, allowing login from jabber client would be useful --- that way you 
could control your avatar from a jabber client (and use commands like 
"/teleport to Core Dump/127/45/32" and similar). if you assign lower 
prio to the external jabber presence, you could even have both external 
jabber client online and the avatar via secondlife client online :-)

    cheers,
    dirk

-- 
dr dirk husemann, pervasive computing, ibm zurich research lab
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