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Jabberwocky: Adding Chat to Your Application with Jabber

Many types of applications are collaborative, and the users of such applications would benefit from the addition of an instant messaging (IM) capability . A new protocol called Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) allows applications to stream XML elements across a network, and it was created especially for working with instant-messaging applications. Jabber is a set of protocols based on XMPP, as well as an API for working with them. You can use the Jabber API to add messaging functionality to your programs. There are several ways to use Jabber for instant messaging. The easiest is to use Jabber directly "out of the box"—you can use the Jabber client program to connect ...