Jabber and Everything After
[ rakaur on Thu Mar 24 at 10:09 AM // category: software, technology ]
So, I’ve finally moved my attention from IRC to XMPP, commonly known as Jabber.
XMPP has a lot of good things going for it. It’s formalized, open, and maintained. It has a very good organization working to keep it free, open, flexible, and extensible. The Jabber Software Foundation reviews extension proposals, and when they publish a Final Draft most servers and clients implement them.
XMPP is ICQ-style IM at its core. That is, you send a message somewhat a la email (which is how Jabber servers work actually). Extensions provide chat-style IMs (AIM, MSN, etc), IRC-like channels (via Multi-User Chat rooms), among an unlimited number of other potential services.
To be honest, the only reason I’ve ignored it for so long is that it’s based upon XML, which I hate. But, when I stop to think about it, it’s probably a good thing. That is, if you don’t care about bandwidth. With a protocol of this complexity, in order to do a syntax-based ASCII or binary protocol the parsers would likely be insanely complex.
Jabber is neat. There’s a server running at ericw.org and my JID is rakaur@ericw.org. The #malkier channel on our IRC network is relayed to/from malkier@conference.ericw.org. All you random internet stalkers can’t drop by and have a swell time!
-- rakaur // 2005.03.24 @ 10:09 AM
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