Slushpupie,

Thank you for your response.  Here is some points on Android, will post more later.

1. First we applied the patch supplied by davanum.

This replaced dependency on xml the parser with the one that was

already on android - kxml2 and solved a bunch of other problems. If

patch is not obvious to your engineers and davanum can not help I will

try to recall what the problems were.

2. Android has a nasty

Java incompatiblity - getResource() and/or getResourceAsStream() does

not work, thus smack.providers and other config files are not read

which leads to numerous ClassCastExceptions and NullPointerExceptions

when using Group Chat. We attempted to fix those places (which will be

reflected in the patch) but there were too many and we gave up and

applied solution similar to the one described here.

Our engineer who worked on this problem created smack providers package

and did initialization in Java source instead of the config file. This

was very laborious. Some provider classes needed to be instantiated,

others had to be supplied as .class. It took a long time of try and

test to figure out which should we which. May be there is a better way

- but we did not find it. I will

supply both providers package and initialization code.

3. The bunch of the problems was related to the fact that Smack API

throws unchecked exceptions way too often. This happens for example

with different connection/login states that Smack finds improper.

Because exception is unchecked - we had to find all those places at the

runtime, not compile time. On Android - when exception is uncaught -

the Activity or Service just dies and this makes the application stop

responding or not receiving messages anymore.

4. I will try to gather and categorize other problems, but it was so

fast paced hacking that forgive us if some details were lost or problem

not investigated to its root. We needed to meet the ADC I Apr 14

deadline.

I will post separately on numerous Applet issues. We have also met the problems with use of Smack in Servet environment. I will also post separately.

Gene