Best IDE for protocol plugin

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Oct 12, 2007, at 17:33, Francois Botha wrote:

> MXit can connect to Jabber / MSN, but it has its own protocol too,  
> which
> is way more popular.

Since they're supporting s2s on their ejabberd server, it doesn't  
matter which XMPP server is more popular. You can just talk to  
anybody on this service using any XMPP server supporting open s2s.
Of course, you wouldn't have access to the roster from mxit, and that  
other jabber id would have to be subscribed to all of your buddies.

> As I said... it's based on jabber, but not compatible.
>
> Check out http://www.defza.com/wordpress/communication/jabber/mxit/

No, it doesn't have its own protocol, MXit just uses XMPP over non- 
XML. Theoretically, you could translate between them even outside the  
application using a proxy service. It should be relatively easy to  
adjust the XMPP plugin to use this transport method.
However, a single example of a message isn't enough to understand how  
the format works, so some kind of documentation would be necessary.

Of course, that wasn't your question at all :) I'd recommend using  
vim (which isn't an IDE).

andy