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

[Matthew Wild]

Would such a daemon be able to work transparently between applications and
the user's real server? If some method for the daemon to authenticate to the
server, and the local applications authenticate to the daemon, the daemon
could handle routing of stanzas to the various local applications.

It is possible for conflicts to occur, in the id attribute of stanzas, if
some applications do not use id's specific to their application instance.
This could be overcome by the daemon rewriting the id attribute. This would
help it to keep track of which stanzas should be routed to which local
application when they are recieved via the Jabber server.

Using this method avoids the need for IPC, or any other client
libraries/modifications. It would be truly independant of what language the
client is written in, it could even allow multiple clients on multiple
machines (connected by a LAN) to share the very same connection to the
Jabber server.

Tell me, good idea or no?


On 8/25/06, Hal Rottenberg <halr9000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/23/06, Olivier Goffart <ogoffart at kde.org> wrote:
> > and vorner itself) I tried to find a way to let IM application start
> others
> > XMPP compatible applications on request.
>
> There are several very popular applications in this space right
> now--and so far as I know, none of them use XMPP.  :)  I mean you have
> Gamespy, Xfire, every portal (Yahoo, MSN, etc.) has their java or
> flash gaming section where you can match player together.
>
> It would be awesome if my IM client or OS applet were to discover some
> network-aware applications that I have installed, and then advertise
> that using [insert favorite subscription or advertising protocol of
> the day].  Especially neat if you were in a MUC with relative
> strangers, but you find that a couple of people with you in the room
> have in common that you play Quake.  Then the next step would be the
> signalling and the tie into the actual game (which is the easy part
> because it's all been done before with these other apps).
>
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