Hubiquitus-node

Hubiquitus-node is a Node.JS project that links a client that wants to perform Publish-Subscribe operations to a XMPP Server. It allows the client to use WebSockets to connect and lets him abstract the underlying structure used by XMPP by only requiring the essential information to perform each action.

Features

• Can be run separately from the XMPP Server, allowing more flexibility.

• Clients can connect using WebSockets, allowing to use the best transport for the client type.

• By using HubiquitusJS you can simplify the treatment of messages sent and let Hubiquitus-Node take care of the rest.

• Several ports can be used for each transport, each running as a different process increasing scalability!

How to Install

Dependencies

To use Hubiquitus-Node, you need Node.JS, NPM, mongoDb and an XMPP Server.

To install correctly Node.JS you can use this link. Note that you need at least v0.6.16

To install correctly XMPP Server you can use for example ejabberd using sudo apt-get install ejabberd. Once the installation is complete, you have to add an admin user sudo ejabberdctl register admin localhost password. Then acces to the admin pannel at http://localhost:5280/admin and add any user you need.

To make it function correctly, the XMPP Server needs to have a Component connection configured.

To install correctly MongoDB database you can use sudo apt-get install mongodb

Installation

$ npm install git://github.com/hubiquitus/hubiquitus-node.git	

How to use

Once installed, all you need to do is run hnode.js with the component-jid and secret as options:

$ ./hnode.js --hnode.jid <jid> --hnode.password <secret>

If you installed it globally (using npm install -g git://github.com/hubiquitus/hubiquitus-node.git) you can run it with $ hubiquitus-node --hnode.jid <jid> --hnode.password <secret>

When launched, the server waits for requests by all available transports in all defined ports.

This server needs a hAPI counterpart (ported to different languages), for example hubiquitusjs.

Configuring

There are two ways to configure Hubiquitus-Node, you can pass command-line arguments when running it or use a config file. The options, their format, their default values and their explanation can all be found in Options.

To use a config file you need only to pass one argument: --config <path>

• Command-line arguments are always in the format --option value.

• Config files are comprised of key-values pairs in the format key = value.

Note: Blank lines or lines starting with '#' are ignored. 
Keys accepting arrays are specified by passing value1,value2,value3

License

Copyright (c) Novedia Group 2012.

This file is part of Hubiquitus

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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You should have received a copy of the MIT License along with Hubiquitus. If not, see http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.