Just curious.... Why reinvent the wheel? Trillan works great (www.trillian.cc), has no ads, and is free. Also works with ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, and IRC.
-- John McKown Brandon Harper wrote: > An option besides those old tags is PresenceWorks ( > http://www.presenceworks.com ). I've worked enough with it enough to > get something basic working in CF 5, then another project came along and > I haven't gotten back to it yet. Perhaps I'll be able to write it as a > CFC by the time it's a priority again and open source it at CFLib or > something along those lines. I don't remember what the service cost of > PresenceWorks is offhand, but its very reasonable. The support is very > good as well-- when I had some questions I ended-up talking to the > person who wrote their Java API. > > I think combining PresenceWorks with the open source work which has > already been done to figure out the AIM/ICQ (they both use the same > login servers now.. rumor is they are working to merge protocols, > finally!), MSN, and Yahoo protocols, I suppose you could eventually roll > something together. However it seems like a pretty big PITA and > potentially maintenance heavy item if its not core to you or your > clients business. > > - Brandon > > -------------------------------------- > http://booms.net > http://spooled.net > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
