About Jabber/XMPP

Jabber/XMPP is an open and extensible set of protocols for instant messaging and presence framework.

Jabber is to XMPP:

• what the web is to HTTP,
• what the e-mail is to SMTP/POP/IMAP.

Jabber is the set of applications based on the set of XMPP protocols.

XMPP is an open standard developped by the XMPP Standards Foundation, and normalized by the IETF.

Jabber covers a full range of applications:

• chat, presence, and groupchat
• VoIP through multimedia session initiations
• notifications and alerts
• middleware applications like ETL, EAI, ESB, and much more
• collaborative applications like group document editing (structured texts, vector graphics, spreadsheets, etc.)
• remote controlling
• monitoring and supervision
• delegated identification and authentication
• alerts and notification
• social networking
• online gaming

Jabber is decentralized, has a rich set of features, is openly extensible, has various opensource (and proprietary) client, server, and library implementations.

For short: Use Jabber/XMPP!

Read more:

• Jabber is more than Instant messaging
• Quand Jabber ne sert pas qu’à la causette