Re: [csjava-developer] Jabber chatbot framework

[Toby D. <tj...@sf...>]

Daryl,

I just updated from the CVS tree, and I don't see the Jabber code. Where 
should I look for it?

I think it's probably simpler to use events instead of threads for the 
asynchronous chatting, if you know what I mean. Treat the messages that 
come from the Jabber server like events. The Smack library should have 
support for this.

Also, I've been chatting with a Surrey high school IT teacher about 
running a Turing Test contest using Jabber, and if a demo is ready I'd 
like to let him try it (i.e. at least chat to it).

Toby

Daryl Van Humbeck wrote:

> Hi, all!
>
> The Jabber chatbot framework is now at a state of some usefulness, you 
> can log-in to a server, listen for messages and send messages.
>
> It uses Jivesoft's Smack toolkit (which made the framework code _much_ 
> smaller), so you'll need to download it and point the projects 
> classpath to two of the files, smack.jar and smackx.jar, in order to 
> use the program.
>
> Just so you know, the test program logs into jabber.org, so if only 
> one person uses the bot unaltered, it will log into jabber.org with 
> the username "csjavaChatBot," and everyone can chat with it.
>
> I probably shouldn't have used threads to listen for messages, but I 
> hadn't been sure of how it works, so I'll probably change it later.
>
> To log into a server, just create a new instance of 
> JabberBotFramework, using the host name, username, and password (and 
> optionally, port) that you want to use.
> The constructor will throw an org.jivesoft.smack.XMPPException if a 
> problem occurrs, so you need to catch it.
>
> For examples, look at the file JabberBotTest.java in the same package 
> as the JabberBotFramework, csjava.chatbot.*.
>
> To send a message, you just call .sendMessage(msg, to), where msg is 
> the String message to send, and to is the username to send it to.
>
> To listen for messages, add a MessageListener to your copy of the 
> JabberBotFramework with .addMessageListener(messageListener).
>
> That's basically it. If you want more functionality (it currently only 
> supports text messages), please post saying so.
> Though I'm not sure how to recieve HTML, etc. messages.
>
> Anyway, here it is.
>
> Daryl.
>
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