Sounds like Jabber may be overkill for your app. A simple webchat would be
fairly easy to implement; if you needed a large amount of scalability, you
could use a message queue system (like activeMQ, which has a HTTP binding)
to handle message delivery and interface with a DHTML/AJAX client.
Bill
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Marc Dirix wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:40:02AM -0500, Bill Welliver wrote:
>> I'd second the comment that libpurple might be a rather tricky first glue
>> for one to write. I looked into it a while back and decided against it.
>> In the mean time, I'm just using the pike-based jabber module I wrote a
>> while back, which still seems to work, though I suppose if you needed to
>> connect to non-jabber IM systems, that wouldn't be very useful. :)
>
> I need some kind of online support chat system. I did look into jabber
> but it seems that it cannot do what I want, however correct me if I'm
> wrong.
>
> I need some websurfer to be able to enter his name (and email or
> something) online and get a webchat. There should be no authentication
> step. The attendant should be able to use an universal IM
> or IRC client.
>
> The websurfer should appear to the attendant as a private conversation.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc
>
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