ProcessOne’s offering includes transports under the commercial name IMgateways.
It takes the form of an ejabberd component on the server-side. It enables the users to simply interact in their Jabber/XMPP client with third party IM systems, in the very same way they use it everyday.
IMgateways include third party legacy IM systems MSN or WLM (Microsoft Network or Windows Live Messenger), Yahoo Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), and the ancestor ICQ.
This offering also includes of course XMPP/Jabber like GTalk/Gmail, jabber.org, LiveJournal, ya.ru, and the thousands of XMPP servers on the internet.
Although not IM systems, the IMgateways bring the microblogging services to the Jabber/XMPP experience: Twitter of course, all the Laconi.ca instances and specifically Identi.ca, the most famous one.
The following table shows the features already available today.
| Feature | MSN | Yahoo | XMPP | AIM | ICQ | μ-blog | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway Interaction (XEP-0100) | + | + | + | + | + | + | The standard registration, login, presence, and contact addition |
| Presence-based delivery | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | + | Messages not delivered if in ‘do not disturb’ status |
| Roster synchronization on c2s | + | + | + | + | + | N/A | Synchro between the XMPP roster and the 3rd party IM contact list |
| vCard avatars (XEP-0153) | + | + | + | + | + | N/A | Simple avatar display |
| vCard avatars propagation | + | + | + | + | + | N/A | Change of avatar from the XMPP client |
| Offline messages (XEP-0091) | + | + | + | + | + | N/A | Messages sent while the recepient is offline are delivered at reconnection |
| JID Escaping (XEP-0106) | + | + | + | + | + | N/A | IM address translation |
| Connection from multiple resources | + | + | + | + | + | + | Allows multiple XMPP connections and a unique connection to IM services |
| Multiple instances | + | + | + | + | + | + | Allows multiple user accounts for a given service |
| XMPP priority | + | + | + | + | + | + | Mapping from 3rd party IM rules to XMPP priority concept |
| File Transfer over SOCKS5 (XEP-0065) | + | + | + | – | – | N/A | Mediated file transfert for NAT and proxy traversal |
| Attention (XEP-0224) | + | + | + | N/A | N/A | N/A | A mean to attract a contact’s attention on a conversation (“buzz” or “nudge”) |
| User Nickname (XEP-0172) | + | + | + | – | – | N/A | Provides a more user-friendly identifer than the IM address |
| Chat States Notifications (XEP-0085) | + | + | + | + | + | N/A | Real-time activity of the a user on the client, like typing, paused or gone |
| XHTML-IM (XEP-0071) | +/- | – | + | – | – | + | Used to transfer emoticons in MSN, and for text formatting in XMPP and Twitter |
| File Transfer Thumbnails (XEP-0264) | + | + | + | – | – | N/A | Preview of file transfers |
| Web form | + | + | + | + | + | + | Web form to allow user to easily add credentials |
More informations are available on IMgateways product page.
