[Standards-JIG] Invitation to use XMPP based game from Instant Messaging Application.

[Robert B Quattlebaum, Jr.]

You may be interested in reading this blog post I made a while back:

http://www.deepdarc.com/2006/05/21/xmpp-client-daemon/

On Aug 23, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Olivier Goffart wrote:

> Hello.
>
> The vorner's mail he just posted on the list about the chess game 
> [1] remind me
> one of my old work.
>
>
> Few month ago, after a discussion with few people about integration  
> of instant
> messaging into the desktop with different people (KDE people, the  
> Psi team,
> and vorner itself) I tried to find a way to let IM application  
> start others
> XMPP compatible applications on request.
>
> So I drafted a JEP: http://kopete.kde.org/protocol/invitation.html
> The version showed there is 0.1 but i should probably have numbered  
> it 0.0.1,
> it's far fromt finished.
>
> The idea is that you want to have a "Play Chess" button on your IM  
> client,
> but you don't want actually implement the chess game directly into  
> your
> application. Anyway, you want to let contact aware that you can  
> play chess,
> and even want to initiate the game from the messaging client.
>
> Note that this JEP is for third application that support XMPP.    
> Starting
> using Quake from the IM Client is out of the scope of this JEP.
>
>
> Few issue that are remaining are:
>  - Applications (even the chess game) has to do service discovery  
> on every
> connected ressource of each contact, maybe twice if the resource  
> support the
> JEP.  the JEP-0115 may help a bit anyway.
>  - Once applications are started on both side, it's still unclear  
> how to
> proceed to an automatic invitation which is automatically accepted  
> in a safe
> way.
>
> I was waiting to publish the JEP because I wanted to try an  
> implementation
> before,  but I have been busy with others things.
>
> So please have a look on my JEP, and tell me if this is useless, or  
> if this is
> the wrong way to go.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Olivier
>
>
> [1] which I definitively think he should publish the specification,  
> even if
> not in a JEP

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