Tuesday, December 30, 2008

XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol)

I am studying android. The android framework provides lots of useful services for the applications. One of them is XMPP service. This is for a kind of open source IM. It can be summarized like this.

XMPP is for a technology for streaming XML over a network.

It is standardized by IETF. RFC 3920 for XMPP core and RFC3921 for XMPP IM.
XMPP was called jabber at the beginning because it had been developed in that name as a open source project. After standardized, the name changed to more formal XMPP. Still some people call it jabber.

Please look at here for more detail.

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