David Banes, from Cleartext, has released a new opensource product: an Enterprise Messaging 2.0, based on ejabberd.
At the SeaBeyond event to day in Paris, David Banes, CEO of Cleartext, has introduced a new way of doing microblogging. It is a client-compatible, standards-based protocol extension, based on message stanzas. It is not relying on PubSub nor XEP-0277: Microblogging over XMPP, that may not be ready yet, or not completely address all the requirements.
It features of course EIM, Group Chat & Microblogging, has security and compliance designed in, and notably has Integrated Content Filtering, Malware Protection, URL & Image Filtering and Archiving with eDiscovery.
Inspired by “XMPP:The Definitive Guide”, it is modelled on ProcessOne Twitter Gateway, and it is a Python XMPP component (XEP-0114). It is NOT federated (yet)!
The client has text-based commands:
"me" - shows who you are, your username and jid (Jabber ID)
"ers" - shows your followers
"ing" - shows who you follow
"f username" - follow this user
"u username" - unfollow this user "
"d username message text" - send direct message to the user
"@username message text" - mention a user, a public message to a user
"s" - show saved searches
"s word" - save live search term
"us word" - delete live search term
"help" - show this help
Custom Stanzas
To Tweet:
<message id="156"
from="dbanes@cleartext.com/9643007101295859746231576"
to="cleartext.cleartext.com"
type="chat">
<body>it's time for end of month expenses please</body>
<active xmlns="https://jabber.org/protocol/chatstates"/>
<x from="dbanes@cleartext.com/9643007101295859746231576"
stamp="2011-01-24T10:49:05Z"
xmlns="urn:xmpp:delay"/>
<x xmlns="https://cleartext.net/mblog">
<buddy type="sender">
<displayName>dbanes@cleartext.com</displayName>
<userName>dbanes</userName>
<jid>dbanes@cleartext.com</jid>
<avatar type="hash">56a03afdd9ab286d43c8f1715fac013d4c53f15a</avatar>
<serviceJid>cleartext.cleartext.com</serviceJid>
</buddy> </x>
</message>
Incoming Tweet:
<message from='cleartext.cleartext.com'
to='dbanes@cleartext.com'
type='chat'>
<body>@admin: my expenses will be late</body>
<x xmlns='https://cleartext.net/mblog'>
<buddy type='sender'>
<displayName>Ozzie</displayName>
<userName>admin</userName>
<jid>admin@cleartext.com</jid>
<avatar type='hash'>ed90623da0e6963516abce705dd24bf0e84a03bd</avatar>
<serviceJid>cleartext.cleartext.com</serviceJid>
<text xmlns='https://cleartext.net/mblog'>my expenses will be late</text>
</buddy>
</x>
</message>
Follow command:
<message id="41"
from="dbanes@cleartext.com/4732502611296587389793170"
to="twitter.cleartext.com"
type="chat">
<body>f noornet</body>
<active xmlns="https://jabber.org/protocol/chatstates"/>
<x from="dbanes@cleartext.com/4732502611296587389793170"
stamp="2011-02-01T19:23:38Z"
xmlns="urn:xmpp:delay"/>
</message>
Server response:
<message from='twitter.cleartext.com'
to='dbanes@cleartext.com/4732502611296587389793170'
type='chat'>
<body>User noornet has been added to your following list</body>
</message>
If you need more information, got to the Cleartext website, and follow David Banes’s GitHub account.
