Jabber Programming by Stephen, Smelser, Terence Lee

Your Jabber Road Map With 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 System Requirements PC 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.