Tom Jordahl's musings

There is an updated tech note that has just been published that updates the library (smack.jar) used for the XMPP Event Gateway in ColdFusion.

This fixed jar adds the following:

• Adds compatibility with Ignite Openfire XMPP server
• Fix for missing realm in SASL/Digest-MD5 challenge response
• XMPP/Jabber 1.0 specification compliance
• Increased connection timeout from 5 to 15 seconds (helps reduce connection failures for very busy XMPP servers)
• Includes SASL/Plain support for servers requesting SASL/PLAIN such as Google Talk
• Added SASL/Digest-MD5 support

Some of these fixes are in ColdFusion 8, some are in CFMX 7.0.2. Basically, if you are running the XMPP gateway in ColdFusion MX 7 or in ColdFusion 8, you want this new jar.

Read the technote here.

ColdFusion MX 7 Event Gateways allow you to communicate with almost anything that you can hook Java up to. One of the best uses for it is with Instant Messaging systems. Now that Google is running a (soon to be?) major public IM network that is based on the XMPP standard (AOL, Yahoo and MSN are all proprietary), you can use the XMPP gateway included in CFMX 7 to connect your CFML code up.

First you should get the update to our XMPP protocol implementation from this
Macromedia - ColdFusion TechNote : ColdFusion MX 7: Replacement file for XMPP Gateway.

Then you should go on over to Ben Forta's blog and read this 3 part posting. Part 2 is here and part 3 is here.

What if you want to hook up to Yahoo, AIM or MSN? You can get the right software to do that from Zion Software, which sells a JBuddy-CF Plugin for ColdFusion MX 7.