I’'m dissapointed to say that the we decided not to bring out the 3.1 release yesterday. The beta is looking very solid so far. However, there are a few additional features that we really want to get into the release and we also want to make sure that stability is high. Features that are left to implement:
Full set of LDAP changes. A lot of good fixes are in place, but work on LDAP as part of the setup process is not yet done.
Gateway support. Daniel is make great progress and the beta will be out very soon, but we’'d like to time the beta and final releases more closely to one another so that 3.1 can make a bigger splash.
So, what’‘s the new time frame? Our best guess is either two weeks from now or three weeks from now for a final release. We’'ll have at least one more beta release before then to track progress and will keep posting updates.
chuckle No there aren’‘t plans for it, but there does appear to be a java API available, so it’‘s not completely outside the realm of possibilities. That said, skype is more audio focused than text chat focused isn’'t it? Right now the IM Gateway is focusing on text based.
Anyway, if there is interest I’‘d be happy to create a jira issue and look into it. (again, keeping in mind that it’'ll likely only do the text chat aspect of it)
-update- I looked over the APIs a tad and well… they all appear to need a compiled counterpart, thereby making it quite difficult to distribute nicely alongside the IM Gateway plugin. =/ sigh. Looks like no one has implement a 100% written in Java API for skype. If anyone happens to see one, let me know.
AFAIK all Skype APIs require the Skype application to be running on the host. Due to the encryption, the protocol hasn’‘t been cracked yet, and Skype itself doesn’'t want to reveal it (security by obscurity at its best).
I would really like IBM Sametime support,it has a Java API that might help. But then again it is not critical for me, I just would like to ditch gaim in favor of a pure jabber only client Spark or Pandiom.
Hey, good to know. =) From what I can see of their java toolkits though, they appear to be “win only”. I don’‘t see any flat out universal java. My guess is they’'re using . what is it… JSI? (is that the thing where they put a java front end on c++, c, whatever code?)
