Re: [TCLUG:20756] jabber xml, icq and im

[^chewie <chewie@wookimus.net>]

On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 09:05:45PM -0500, Ben Luey wrote:
> I'm confused about jabber -- from what I read on jabber.org it is a
> way to unify icq, im, etc al -- the jabber program has one set of
> commands and sits on top of code that communicates with these
> different services, right? Yet when I look at gabber and other
> jabber clients there is no menthion of icq compatibility. Can jaber
> clients communicate with these services? Will they, or am I totally
> confused.

Not to insult, but it's really not all that confusing.  Are you
familiar with the IM client Everybuddy?  This IM has the communication
libraries for a number of IM services, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, etc.  When you
log on with Everybuddy, you must have an account for each one, ICQ,
Yahoo, etc.  Any messaging service you want to participate in, you
must have an account for.

OK.  Now that you know that Everybuddy can interface you with all of
these messaging services with one client, now think of Everybuddy as
being a server to which you connect a client to via the network.  The
communication protocol that the client-server uses to talk to
eachother is XML delimited/marked up messages.  So, you're controlling
your account on the server with the client, talking to whomever you
want with the various accounts you have on the various messaging
services...  Get it?

Yes, jabber understands ICQ.  Since the jabber protocol understands
it, gabber the client understands it.  I have both an ICQ account
that I access through jabber.org and a yahoo account I access through
jabber.org.  My jabber.org account is "chewie", but my icq account is
984237534blah...  whatever.  The jabber server sees me as
<icqnumber>@icq.jabber.org when sending messages to me... blah blah
blah...

It's all in the docs.  Why don't you load the software and play with
it?

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  Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net>
              http://wookimus.net/chewie

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