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+\documentclass[10pt]{article}
+
+\usepackage{graphics}
+\usepackage{hevea}
+\usepackage{verbatim}
+
+
+\newcommand{\logoscale}{0.7}
+\newcommand{\imgscale}{0.58}
+\newcommand{\insimg}[1]{\insscaleimg{\imgscale}{#1}}
+
+\newcommand{\insscaleimg}[2]{
+ \imgsrc{#2}{}
+ \begin{latexonly}
+ \scalebox{#1}{\includegraphics{#2}}
+ \end{latexonly}
+}
+
+\newcommand{\ns}[1]{\texttt{#1}}
+\newcommand{\ejabberd}{\texttt{ejabberd}}
+\newcommand{\Jabber}{Jabber}
+
+\newcommand{\modregister}{\texttt{mod\_register}}
+\newcommand{\modroster}{\texttt{mod\_roster}}
+\newcommand{\modconfigure}{\texttt{mod\_configure}}
+\newcommand{\moddisco}{\texttt{mod\_disco}}
+\newcommand{\modstats}{\texttt{mod\_stats}}
+\newcommand{\modvcard}{\texttt{mod\_vcard}}
+\newcommand{\modoffline}{\texttt{mod\_offline}}
+\newcommand{\modecho}{\texttt{mod\_echo}}
+\newcommand{\modprivate}{\texttt{mod\_private}}
+\newcommand{\modtime}{\texttt{mod\_time}}
+\newcommand{\modversion}{\texttt{mod\_version}}
+c
+%\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
+
+
+\title{Ejabberd Developers Guide}
+\author{Alexey Shchepin \\
+ \ahrefurl{mailto:alexey@sevcom.net} \\
+ \ahrefurl{xmpp:aleksey@jabber.ru}}
+\date{September 10, 2003}
+
+\begin{document}
+\begin{titlepage}
+ \maketitle{}
+
+ {\centering
+ \insscaleimg{\logoscale}{logo.png}
+ \par
+ }
+\end{titlepage}
+%\newpage
+\tableofcontents{}
+
+\newpage
+\section{Introduction}
+\label{sec:intro}
+
+\ejabberd{} is a Free and Open Source fault-tolerant distributed \Jabber{}
+server. It is writen mostly in Erlang.
+
+The main features of \ejabberd{} is:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item Works on most of popular platforms: *nix (tested on Linux and FreeBSD)
+ and Win32
+\item Distributed: You can run \ejabberd{} on a cluster of machines and all of
+ them will serve one Jabber domain.
+\item Fault-tolerance: You can setup an \ejabberd{} cluster so that all the
+ information required for a properly working service will be stored
+ permanently on more than one node. This means that if one of the nodes
+ crashes, then the others will continue working without disruption.
+ You can also add or replace more nodes ``on the fly''.
+\item Built-in \footahref{http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0045.html}{Multi-User
+ Chat} service
+\item Built-in IRC transport
+\item Built-in
+ \footahref{http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0060.html}{Publish-Subscribe}
+ service
+\item Built-in Jabber Users Directory service based on users vCards
+\item Support for
+ \footahref{http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0030.html}{JEP-0030}
+ (Service Discovery).
+\item Support for
+ \footahref{http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0039.html}{JEP-0039}
+ (Statistics Gathering).
+\item Support for \ns{xml:lang} attribute in many XML elements
+\end{itemize}
+
+
+
+
+
+\subsection{How it works}
+\label{sec:howitworks}
+
+
+
+A \Jabber{} domain is served by one or more \ejabberd{} nodes. These nodes can
+be run on different machines that are connected via a network. They all must
+have the ability to connect to port 4369 of all another nodes, and must have
+the same magic cookie (see Erlang/OTP documentation, in other words the file
+\texttt{\~{}ejabberd/.erlang.cookie} must be the same on all nodes). This is
+needed because all nodes exchange information about connected users, S2S
+connections, registered services, etc\ldots
+
+
+
+Each \ejabberd{} node have following modules:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item router;
+\item local router.
+\item session manager;
+\item S2S manager;
+\end{itemize}
+
+
+\subsubsection{Router}
+
+This module is the main router of \Jabber{} packets on each node. It routes
+them based on their destinations domains. It has two tables: local and global
+routes. First, domain of packet destination searched in local table, and if it
+found, then the packet is routed to appropriate process. If no, then it
+searches in global table, and is routed to the appropriate \ejabberd{} node or
+process. If it does not exists in either tables, then it sent to the S2S
+manager.
+
+
+\subsubsection{Local Router}
+
+This module routes packets which have a destination domain equal to this server
+name. If destination JID has a non-empty user part, then it routed to the
+session manager, else it is processed depending on it's content.
+
+
+\subsubsection{Session Manager}
+
+This module routes packets to local users. It searches for what user resource
+packet must be sended via presence table. If this resource is connected to
+this node, it is routed to C2S process, if it connected via another node, then
+the packet is sent to session manager on that node.
+
+
+\subsubsection{S2S Manager}
+
+This module routes packets to other \Jabber{} servers. First, it checks if an
+open S2S connection from the domain of the packet source to the domain of
+packet destination already exists. If it is open on another node, then it
+routes the packet to S2S manager on that node, if it is open on this node, then
+it is routed to the process that serves this connection, and if a connection
+does not exist, then it is opened and registered.
+
+
+
+
+\section{XML representation}
+\label{sec:xmlrepr}
+
+Each XML stanza represented as following tuple:
+\begin{verbatim}
+XMLElement = {xmlelement, Name, Attrs, [ElementOrCDATA]}
+ Name = string()
+ Attrs = [Attr]
+ Attr = {Key, Val}
+ Key = string()
+ Val = string()
+ ElementOrCDATA = XMLElement | CDATA
+ CDATA = {xmlcdata, string()}
+\end{verbatim}
+E.\,g. this stanza:
+\begin{verbatim}
+<message to='test@conference.e.localhost' type='groupchat'>
+ <body>test</body>
+</message>
+\end{verbatim}
+represented as following structure:
+\begin{verbatim}
+{xmlelement, "message",
+ [{"to", "test@conference.e.localhost"},
+ {"type", "groupchat"}],
+ [{xmlelement, "body",
+ [],
+ [{xmlcdata, "test"}]}]}}
+\end{verbatim}
+
+
+
+\section{Module \texttt{xml}}
+\label{sec:xmlmod}
+
+\begin{description}
+\item[\verb|element_to_string(El) -> string()|]
+\begin{verbatim}
+El = XMLElement
+\end{verbatim}
+ Returns string representation of XML stanza \texttt{El}.
+
+\item[\verb|crypt(S) -> string()|]
+\begin{verbatim}
+S = string()
+\end{verbatim}
+ Returns string which correspond to \texttt{S} with encoded XML special
+ characters.
+
+\item[\verb|remove_cdata(ECList) -> EList|]
+\begin{verbatim}
+ECList = [ElementOrCDATA]
+EList = [XMLElement]
+\end{verbatim}
+ \texttt{EList} is a list of all non-CDATA elements of ECList.
+
+
+
+\item[\verb|get_path_s(El, Path) -> Res|]
+\begin{verbatim}
+El = XMLElement
+Path = [PathItem]
+PathItem = PathElem | PathAttr | PathCDATA
+PathElem = {elem, Name}
+PathAttr = {attr, Name}
+PathCDATA = cdata
+Name = string()
+Res = string() | XMLElement
+\end{verbatim}
+ If \texttt{Path} is empty, then returns \texttt{El}. Else sequentially
+ consider elements of \texttt{Path}. Each element is one of:
+ \begin{description}
+ \item[\verb|{elem, Name}|] \texttt{Name} is name of subelement of
+ \texttt{El}, if such element exists, then this element considered in
+ following steps, else returns empty string.
+ \item[\verb|{attr, Name}|] If \texttt{El} have attribute \texttt{Name}, then
+ returns value of this attribute, else returns empty string.
+ \item[\verb|cdata|] Returns CDATA of \texttt{El}.
+ \end{description}
+
+\item[TODO:]
+\begin{verbatim}
+ get_cdata/1, get_tag_cdata/1
+ get_attr/2, get_attr_s/2
+ get_tag_attr/2, get_tag_attr_s/2
+ get_subtag/2
+\end{verbatim}
+\end{description}
+
+
+
+
+\section{\ejabberd{} modules}
+\label{sec:emods}
+
+
+\subsection{\verb|gen_mod| behaviour}
+\label{sec:genmod}
+
+TBD
+
+\subsection{Module \verb|gen_iq_handler|}
+\label{sec:geniqhandl}
+
+The module \verb|gen_iq_handler| allows to easily write handlers for IQ packets
+of particular XML namespaces that addressed to server or to users bare JIDs.
+
+In this module the following functions are defined:
+\begin{description}
+\item[\verb|add_iq_handler(Component, NS, Module, Function, Type)|]
+\begin{verbatim}
+Component = Module = Function = atom()
+NS = string()
+Type = no_queue | one_queue | parallel
+\end{verbatim}
+ Registers function \verb|Module:Function| as handler for IQ packets that
+ contain child of namespace \verb|NS| in \verb|Component|. Queueing
+ discipline is \verb|Type|. There are at least two components defined:
+ \begin{description}
+ \item[\verb|ejabberd_local|] Handles packets that addressed to server JID;
+ \item[\verb|ejabberd_sm|] Handles packets that addressed to users bare JIDs.
+ \end{description}
+\item[\verb|remove_iq_handler(Component, NS)|]
+\begin{verbatim}
+Component = atom()
+NS = string()
+\end{verbatim}
+ Removes IQ handler for namespace \verb|NS| from \verb|Component|.
+\end{description}
+
+Handler function must have the following type:
+\begin{description}
+\item[\verb|Module:Function(From, To, IQ)|]
+\begin{verbatim}
+From = To = jid()
+\end{verbatim}
+\end{description}
+
+
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+-module(mod_cputime).
+
+-behaviour(gen_mod).
+
+-export([start/1,
+ stop/0,
+ process_local_iq/3]).
+
+-include("ejabberd.hrl").
+-include("jlib.hrl").
+
+-define(NS_CPUTIME, "ejabberd:cputime").
+
+start(Opts) ->
+ IQDisc = gen_mod:get_opt(iqdisc, Opts, one_queue),
+ gen_iq_handler:add_iq_handler(ejabberd_local, ?NS_CPUTIME,
+ ?MODULE, process_local_iq, IQDisc).
+
+stop() ->
+ gen_iq_handler:remove_iq_handler(ejabberd_local, ?NS_CPUTIME).
+
+process_local_iq(From, To, {iq, ID, Type, XMLNS, SubEl}) ->
+ case Type of
+ set ->
+ {iq, ID, error, XMLNS,
+ [SubEl, ?ERR_NOT_ALLOWED]};
+ get ->
+ CPUTime = element(1, erlang:statistics(runtime))/1000,
+ SCPUTime = lists:flatten(io_lib:format("~.3f", CPUTime)),
+ {iq, ID, result, XMLNS,
+ [{xmlelement, "query",
+ [{"xmlns", ?NS_CPUTIME}],
+ [{xmlelement, "cputime", [], [{xmlcdata, SCPUTime}]}]}]}
+ end.
+\end{verbatim}
+
+
+\subsection{Services}
+\label{sec:services}
+
+TBD
+
+
+TODO: use \verb|proc_lib|
+\begin{verbatim}
+-module(mod_echo).
+
+-behaviour(gen_mod).
+
+-export([start/1, init/1, stop/0]).
+
+-include("ejabberd.hrl").
+-include("jlib.hrl").
+
+start(Opts) ->
+ Host = gen_mod:get_opt(host, Opts, "echo." ++ ?MYNAME),
+ register(ejabberd_mod_echo, spawn(?MODULE, init, [Host])).
+
+init(Host) ->
+ ejabberd_router:register_local_route(Host),
+ loop(Host).
+
+loop(Host) ->
+ receive
+ {route, From, To, Packet} ->
+ ejabberd_router:route(To, From, Packet),
+ loop(Host);
+ stop ->
+ ejabberd_router:unregister_local_route(Host),
+ ok;
+ _ ->
+ loop(Host)
+ end.
+
+stop() ->
+ ejabberd_mod_echo ! stop,
+ ok.
+\end{verbatim}
+
+
+
+\end{document}