Basic Xiff 'helloworld'

XIFF
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Hello,

I’m wondering if there is a very basic, well documented instructions on using XIFF. Is there a ‘hello world’ of Xiff, that involves:

connecting to a server

sending a string to the server

reciving same string back from server

I’m using Adobe Flash CS3, AS3 and I have tried to follow both:

http://paazio.nanbudo.fi/tutorials/flash/xiff-chat-part-1

and

http://www.actionscriptdeveloper.co.uk/puremvc-tutorial-flex-puremvc-jabber-and- xiff-3-introduction/

which are the only two XIFF tutorials I could find.

One has no documentation, some superfluous stuff, and is written for FLEX. 260 lines of code doesn’t seem like a ‘hello world’ to me.

The other page is really an introduction to puremvc, not xiff3. I was able to follow it a bit, but my ignorance on both puremvc and xiff has made it difficult to grok both topics.

If anyone could point me to an article or quickly write up a very basic xiff example, i’d very much appriciate it. I think an example like that would go a long way to help develop the xiff community.

Thanks!

-Tim

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Unfortunately, I don’t know of any additional documentation. It’s obviously something that needs to get created, but nobody working on the project has had time to work on it yet.

Regards,

Matt

3

Thanks for the response. I guess i’ll have to pick up what I can. If I ever get it working, I’ll write something up. =)

Do you know if XIFF can be used with just Flash AS3 or does it require FLEX3 SDK?

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XIFF requires the ArrayCollection class from Flex; Theoretically it should be possible to extract that and its superclasses and such and compile it in Flash, but I haven’t tried.

5

Thanks! I’ll have try that out.

6

I have posted about half of a HelloWorld example:

http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/08/14/connecting-to-an-xmpp-jabber-server- with-the-xiff-as3-library/

Im trying to put together a very basic chat, and have it working, but I need to work out some of the bugs. Ill post it when I understand what is going on a little more.

mike chambers