On 10/9/07, Yves Goergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > today I have first tested Openfire 3.3 with its Gateway plugin. It's > quite straight-forward: install Openfire, log in to the web interface, > install the Gateway plugin, enable the networks you like and you're done > from the administrator's POV. No downloading and manual installing of > other software and their dependencies (recent Python, Twisted), no > separate system services and interconnection with ports and passwords, > configuration and other things. I could connect to ICQ and Yahoo without > any 3rd party software. > > So, now there's PyICQ-t and others which were required to use ICQ > connections in previous versions of Openfire (Wildfire). What has > happened to those? Do I still need them? Are they just bundled in the > new Gateway plugin? (Plugins use Java, Py* uses Python, so I guess it's > some kind of re-write from scratch...) What's the functional difference > between Openfire's Gateway plugin and the other Py* transports? (I've > found a video about that improved roster integration that sounds > reasonable to me, is there anything else?) > > Can anybody please enlighten me? The docs I found on the Openfire site > weren't too clear for me.
Hi Yves, Pretty much everything you've listed is _the_ difference: No downloading and manual installing of other software and their dependencies, no separate system services and interconnection with ports and passwords, configuration and other things, improved roster integration. The Gateway plugin was written by the author of the Python AIM and ICQ transports so there's a good knowledge base there. Yes they were (re)written from the ground up n Java, but using existing connection libraries. You get things like the roster integration because of the tight integration with the server. What you lose because of this integration is: The gateway plugin is only useable by local users. Users on remote servers can't use it at all. Also the plugin only works with Openfire. You can't use it with any other jabber server. -- - Norman Rasmussen - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Home page: http://norman.rasmussen.co.za/ _______________________________________________ py-transports mailing list py-transports@blathersource.org http://lists.modevia.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/py-transports
