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Charismatic Glen Smith is back at it again, this time with a Grails Jabber plugin as part of the sample application he and Peter Ledbrook are developing for the upcomming Grails in Action book.

You can send messages from your jabber client directly to your hubbub account, and they’ll become part of your Post history. Here’s the beast in action. Sent from a Spark jabber client in the foreground to the hubbub webapp running in the backend:

The Jabber gateway listens on the hubbub user’s jabber account (based on some good work on the feedlr blog), slurps off any incoming jabbers, and places them on a JMS queue. In due course, hubbub takes those incoming queue messages and puts them on the Post history of the user with that jabber id in their profile. Eventually hubbub will let you go both ways - jabbering you your friend’s posts as well.

As Glen notes the implementation relies on JMS, which is a topic he previously covered here and here, as a matter of fact it looks like the Jabber plugin was inspired by the JMS plugin. The plugin can be downloaded from github, Glen will post the source to grails.org soon as he resolves a packaging issue.

Tags: Glen Smith, Grails