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Practical XMPP

By : Steven Watkin, David Koelle
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Practical XMPP

By: Steven Watkin, David Koelle

Overview of this book

XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is a messaging protocol that enables communication between two or more devices via the Internet. With this book, developers will learn about the fundamentals of XMPP, be able to work with the core functionality both server-side and in the browser, as well as starting to explore several of the protocol extensions. You will not only have a solid grasp of XMPP and how it works, but will also be able to use the protocol to build real-world applications that utilize the power of XMPP. By the end of this book, you will know more about networking applications in general, and have a good understanding of how to extend XMPP, as well as using it in sample applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Practical XMPP
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
An Introduction to XMPP and Installing Our First Server

Summary


By the end of this chapter, we really starting to build some basic yet powerful stuff. With just presence, simple instant messaging, chat state, and a whole fleet of bots, we can already build quite powerful real time (and lets not forget federated) applications!

In this chapter, we learned about XMPP connection methods from the browser, we were introduced to and played with XMPP-FTW, we built a simple HTTP and WebSocket server to talk via the browser, and we built a browser-based client to chat with our instant answers bot from Chapter 2, Diving into the Core XMPP Concepts.

In the next chapter, we will build a Multi-User Chat (MUC) application with our newly gained knowledge of XMPP-FTW.