Press Release
January 16, 2002
Jabber Much More Than an IM System Says O'Reilly Author: "Programming Jabber: Extending XML Messaging"
Sebastopol, CA--"Quite simply, Programming Jabber rocks!" Jeremie Miller, founder and lead
developer of Jabber, says about the new book by DJ Adams.
Jabber is a set of protocols expressed in XML, and an extensible
framework that allows people and applications to exchange all sorts of
information, from simple text messages to extending the backbone of an
enterprise data system. Jabber gives programmers the power to build
applications that have identity, presence, and that can take part in
conversations.
"This is an era of exploration," says author DJ Adams. "Programmers
today want and need to discover new ways of building applications and
services that are not islands, but are connected to each other and to
their users. People are beginning to realize that Jabber is not just an
Instant Messaging (IM) system, nor just a system that can connect you
seamlessly to different foreign IM systems. It's more than that: a
framework, an architecture, and a protocol that arms you with the tools
to build all kinds of messaging- based systems. The book is called
Programming Jabber because that's really what it's about--using
Jabber to build all kinds of different things."
Programming Jabber (O'Reilly, US $39.95) provides programmers the
opportunity to learn and understand the Jabber technology and protocol
from an implementer's point of view. "I was intrigued by the protocol;
my entry point into the Jabber world was from the bottom up, so to
speak," Adams says. "From day one, I was looking at the XML flowing
between client and server. At the time, my head was full of XML,
messaging, and Internet-wide communication. Jabber seemed to
encapsulate all these things in one neat little box of potential. The
more I learned about Jabber the more mesmerized I became."
According to Adams, one of the attractive features of Jabber is the low
cost of entry. "By this I mean that Jabber's protocol is simple," he
explains. "If you can read and construct XML, and use TCP sockets, you
can turn Jabber to your advantage. The open source Jabber server is
written in C, and the codebase is fairly small, which means that it's
not an impossible task to get a grip on what's going on from end to
end. Moreover, there are libraries that make Jabber programming easier
in many popular languages: C++, Java, Python, and Perl, to name a few.
I've even seen some Jabber stuff in REBOL!"
"Like chess, which has a small set of rules but countless game
possibilities, the technologies employed in Jabber and the protocol
itself are straightforward," says Adams. "The possibilities are almost
limitless. Jabber is an idea whose time has come."
Online Resources:
Programming Jabber
By DJ Adams
0-596-00202-5, Order Number: 2025
480 pages, $39.95 (US) $59.95 (CA)
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
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