Jabber Programming

Your Jabber Road MapWith Jabber, the open source movement has produced an XML-based platform that you can use for a wide range of instant messaging applications. As one of the first books on this hot emerging technology, this handy reference gives you expert guidance for building Jabber-based messaging systems quickly and easily. Detailed examples help you install and run a Jabber server, enable group conferencing, and create your own instant messaging client for use with AIM, MSN, ICQ, and other popular IM clients.

Put Jabber to Work

Get up to speed on Jabber clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Java Set up a Jabber test server on Linux Install agents for ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, AIM, and IRC Learn about creating, saving, and retrieving vCards in Jabber Create custom options for your Jabber client CD-ROM includes myJabber Personal Communicator JabberFoX, Phat Linux, and OpenIM source code Authors' source code and examples from the book P>System RequirementsPC running Pentium 120 or Mac OS X or higher; 32 MB RAM (64 MB recommended). See About the CD-ROM Appendix for details and complete system requirements.

Author Stephen Lee has been involved with Jabber since October 2000 and has written popular clients and add-ons such as myJabber as well as custom Jabber server projects. His 16 years of programming experience include developing commercial applications for the auto industry.

Terence Smelser has been involved in Jabber since November 2000. The co-developer of myJabber, he is currently a partner in sltsCommunications and a co-developer of custom servers andchat clients.