Theoretically: Changing the messaging protocol from Jabber to Skype, MS Teams or RocketChat

[bjoern....@gmx.de]

Hello,

I do work in an organzation which does not have Jabber.
So it is not easily possible to get a Jabber server.

As Saros is based solely on Jabber, this means I cannot use Saros for the lack of a company Jabber server (we wouldn't like to set one up either).

My question is: is the architecture of Saros flexible enough to support other messaging protocols like Skype? (I don't know whether Skype offers a suitable API, but if it doesn't maybe RocketChat or MS Teams could do the job as well).

Best regards,

Björn Thalheim

[Tobias Bouschen]

Hi Björn,

Currently, Saros does not support any other network protocol and the architecture is not set up to accommodate this either as far as I know. (We have discussed adjusting the architecture to include an abstraction for the protocol as this is sensible anyways. This would allow us to also add other protocols. But it is still a long way off.)

Is the issue that the server has to be hosted company-internally? Because otherwise you could use our XMPP server 'saros-con.imp.fu-berlin.de' (or other any freely available Jabber server).

Best regards,
Tobias

[Prechelt, Lutz]

Hi Björn,

 

or consider the possibility of running an XMPP server just for a single Saros session on your development machine.

 

  Lutz