README xmpp4moz Dec 8, 2011 sibrahim shaw.ibrahim [at] gmail.com 1) The version here has been updated from bard/xmpp4moz branch 0.7. Please see http://github.com/bard/sameplace/wikis/home for some documentation on the original version. These documents may shed some light on bard's (original author) design: http://hyperstruct.net/2006/08/10/your-first-javascript-xpcom-component-in-10-minutes/ http://hyperstruct.net/2009/06/30/the-mozilla-addons-workshop-in-florence/ 2) My first set of changes were to enable xmpp4moz to run under the new xpcom for Gecko 2.0 framework. Code changes were marked with //FF4. It runs under Firefox FF4-8. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM/XPCOM_changes_in_Gecko_2.0 http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2010/06/14/multiple-breaking-changes-are-coming-for-components-in-extensions/ See also notes file for files that changed 3) The second set of changes were done to make xmpp4moz compatible w/ FF9 The interface definitions nsIXMPPCacheService.idl for XMPPCacheService.js would cause an exception during runtime. Exception ~= argument type error This could not be fixed with a new xpidl or xulrunner sdk. In order to make it work, we disabled the ability to call xmpp4moz from non-javascript code, thus removing the problematic idl and xmpp4moz worked. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/How_to_Build_an_XPCOM_Component_in_Javascript#Creating_the_Component The code changes were marked with //FF9 Changed files: -------------- ./chrome.manifest ./install.rdf ./update.rdf.template ./chrome/content/service/client_service.js ./chrome/content/service/jsapi.js ./chrome/content/test/tc_session.js ./components - Changed XMPPCacheService.js, XMPPClientService.js, XMPPClientSession.js, XMPPTCPConnector.js to new XPCOM Gecko 2.0, marked with //FF No longer needed: ---------------- ./public - idl definitions. This directory can be removed if we no longer need to call xmpp4moz from non-javascript code ./public/nsIXMPPCacheService.idl ./public/nsIXMPPClientService.idl ./public/nsIXMPPClientSession.idl ./public/nsIXMPPConnector.idl produces xpt file using xpidl (xulrunner idl compiler) ./components/nsIXMPPCacheService.xpt (removed) ./components/nsIXMPPClientService.xpt (removed) ./components/nsIXMPPClientSession.xpt (removed) ./components/nsIXMPPConnector.xpt (removed) These xpt 's are also no longer needed since xmpp4moz is not being called from non-javascript code. New files: --------- ./pack.csh - helper pack files into xmpp4moz.xpi ./buildsax.csh - helper to compile SAX (xml parser) xpcom interface definitions. Should be changed to a Makefile No change: --------- chrome/content/ui/dataforms.js chrome/content/ui/dataforms.xul //EOF