Hi Sergio, Good to hear things are beginning to make sense!
On the issue of Kannel + Mbuni, the short answer is that only time will tell if our goals can be aligned, and as such if a fusion makes sense. Note that Mbuni started out as an MMSC, which is not quite the same class of application as Kannel (which is more of a VAS GW). Lately of course Mbuni also behaves as a VAS GW. In short we are collaborating (you will have seen some key Kannel developers on this list, and also Mbuni developers on the Kannel list), but we think it may be too early to start asking each other out on a date! P. On Feb 06, 2006, at 14:12, Sergio Roysen wrote: > Hi Paul: > > Thanks for this info. The mention of Kannel sent me to study some > of its > inner workings. Was a very educative experience, particularly the > mention of the ingenious uses of the C preprocessor for the definition > of some tables (the first time I stumble upon them in Mbuni drove me > crazy trying to figure out what was that for :-). > Are there any plans to integrate Mbuni functionality in Kannel? Seems > logical to have a platform with integrated SMS, WAP and MMS gateway > capabilities (hope I'm not bringing up a sensitive issue). From the > Kannel perspective it would involve adding a third Box, the MMSbox, > working in parallel to the already existing SMSbox and WAPbox. > > Best regards, > > Sergio > > Paul Bagyenda wrote: > >> Hi Sergio, >> >> Welcome. >> >> To try and answer your questions: There is no architecture guide >> at the moment, I suppose largely because no one expressed a need. the >> user documentation does however provider a brief overview of the >> system's internal structure, and links to documents with more info on >> MMS architecture. We have however tried to name source files >> consistently, so each file name should roughly tell you what it >> contains. Comments are also used liberally. >> >> A quick primer: >> >> - Directory mmsc/ contains the mmsc components (the proxy -- in >> mmsproxy.c, and the relay -- in mmsrelay.c) >> - Directory mmsbox/ contains the VAS gateway code, which is split >> over a couple of files >> - Directory mmlib/ contains library routines (message coding/ >> decoding in mms_msg.[ch], MM7/SOAP coding/decoding in mms_mm7soap. >> [ch], content adaptation in mms_uaprof.[ch] and so on) >> >> >> On the list traffic issue, there is a lot of off-list activity to >> try and work with the Kannel people to see that their planned v1.4.1 >> incorporates important changes to gwlib suggested by members of this >> list. Once that's done (and it almost is), we restart the discussion >> here on a new release version. >> >> Paul. >> >> On Feb 03, 2006, at 16:58, Sergio Roysen wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm new to the list. Subscribed to it because I wanted to learn the >>> inner working of a MMSC and a MMS VAS gateway. Trying to follow the >>> source tree I found myself almost lost, like if instead of >>> learning I >>> was reverse engineering the whole thing. Is there at least a brief >>> description of what every module does? And what every file contains? >>> >>> Also, I noticed there is almost no traffic in the list (both the >>> User >>> and the Devel list). Is it because the Mbuni platform is already >>> at a >>> state where it cannot be improved anymore or is it that there are a >>> few >>> developers and they prefer to communicate with each other directly >>> instead of going through the list. >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Sergio >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devel mailing list >>> Devel@mbuni.org >>> http://mbuni.org/mailman/listinfo/devel_mbuni.org >>> >>> >> >> ----------------------------------------------- >> Trek the Rwenzori's. Or just see them online - http:// >> www.rwenzori.com/ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@mbuni.org >> http://mbuni.org/mailman/listinfo/devel_mbuni.org >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@mbuni.org > http://mbuni.org/mailman/listinfo/devel_mbuni.org ----------------------------------------------- Trek the Rwenzori's. Or just see them online - http://www.rwenzori.com/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@mbuni.org http://mbuni.org/mailman/listinfo/devel_mbuni.org
