Programming Jabber

Conferencing

The Conferencing component at jabber.org is conference.jabber.org. Details of the component instance configuration for such a Conferencing component can be found in Section 4.10, where we see that the component exists as a shared object library connected with the library load component connection method. This component provides general conferencing facilities, oriented around a conference room and conference user model.

A Jabber user can enter (or join) a conference room, thereby becoming a conference user identified by a nickname that is chosen upon entering that room. Nicknames are generally used in conference rooms to provide a modicum of privacy—it is assumed that by default you don’t want to let the other conference room members know your real JID.

The Conferencing component supports two protocols for user and room interaction: a simple one that provides basic features and a more complex one that provides the basic features plus facilities such as password-protected rooms and room descriptions—Groupchat and Conference.

Note

There is a third protocol, called Experimental iq:groupchat, which came between the Groupchat and Conference protocols. This reflected an experimental move to add features to the basic Groupchat protocol using IQ elements, the contents of which were qualified by a namespace jabber:iq:groupchat. This protocol has been dropped, and support for it exists only in certain versions of WinJab and JIM.

Groupchat

The Groupchat protocol is the simpler ...