#xmpp

We’ve been building XMPP systems for over 25 years. The XML performance question comes up often in early conversations. Every single time, we end up optimizing ejabberd configuration, clustering, architecture, client protocol usage, and databases instead.

Programming a chat bot was once the domain of the hardcore hacker tapping packets as they passed over the wire from proprietary client applications to closed source servers, but not any more!

"After our short demonstration of what you can do when you put XMPP inside the browser, we wanted to demonstrate that it works equally well in a mobile browser."

"Hemlock is an open-source framework that combines the richness of Flash with the scalability of XMPP, facilitating a new class of web applications where multiple users can interact in real time. Games, workspace collaboration, educational tools… The only limit is your imagination."

"Here is a simple example that shows how to connect to an XMPP / Jabber server, join a room, and send a message to the room."

"In some ways this is slightly more elegant than the XMPP solution as neither side has to maintain a dedicated long-running process. ... There are a number of people on inexpensive service providers who have at best web scripting hosting and not much else

"Now just wait for your friends to status away using their IM client."

"The Jabber/XMPP protocol and PubSub extension offer a Web scale, standards based, and increasingly popular way to build stream oriented web services."

"Pretzel is a Jabber/XMPP server designed to be able to be easily extensible."

"The polling system is gone. TiVo is using XMPP now instead."

"Those TiVo people are smart. :-)"

"its main purpose is to allow for stateless applications (ie web) a stateful connection to jabber"

"Openfire (formerly Wildfire) is a real time collaboration (RTC) server dual-licensed under the Open Source GPL and commercially. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber)."

"Ten years from now, we will be using SMS text messages to change the channel on the televison."

"This document defines an XMPP protocol extension that enables verification of an HTTP request via XMPP."

"This is an event-driven Jabber client class implementation, allowing your script to connect to and interact with Jabber (XMPP) servers. This script was originally based on class.jabber.php, but has been almost completely rewritten (with permission from

"S5Share is a little script that lets you give S5 presentations over the web with Firefox and SamePlace."

"A browser connector that provides rich user-to-user communication and interaction to web applications, in real-time and without server hacks."

"5 years from now, Grid services that are not already on Web will be based on instant messaging, and XMPP/Atom/RDF will be the key Grid transfer protocols and formats."

Ho-lee shit. This excites me orders of magnitude more than GTalk. "A lot of you have noticed that we wrote a Jabber server, djabberd, and thus it should come as no surprise that we're launching a LiveJournal-integrated Jabber service."

"Smack is an Open Source XMPP (Jabber) client library for instant messaging and presence."

"go on and add all the people @gmail.com to your contact list. Imagine how surprised they'll be to see your Jabber ID show up"

"It appears that the IETF is now hosting Jabber based rooms for each of the working groups."

"The Web, Plain-Old-XML, XMPP, and JSON are the way forward. And I think, deep down, everyone knows it."

"Instead of a typical XMPP IM message, we'll show how to send Atom Entry documents as XMPP payloads."

"Service choice is something you have with email and, for the most part, with your regular phone service today."