Tag Archives: XMPP

Introduction Instant Messaging (IM) or chat is a service used broadly today in many applications like google talk or the more recent google Hangouts, Yahoo! Talk etc. It is based on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) or Jabber protocol. Usually, a client-server architecture is followed, where specially-built XMPP clients exchange XMPP messages with XMPP servers who propagate the ...

Gateway interaction is described by XEP-0100. The query xmlns (namespace) used for this is same as IN-Band registration, that is “jabber:iq:register”. Smack API provides an easy way handle gateway interaction with the server. It has predefined classes for the required namespace and operations which one can easily use and do the thing. In this article I will explain how one ...

This tutorial is the third part of the “Setting up an infrastructure for Instant Messaging” article series. In my previous tutorials, I showed you how to setup the Openfire IM Server and how to configure the Spark client in order to connect to that server. In this tutorial, I will show you how to add XMPP messaging capabilities to your ...

This tutorial is the second part of the “Setting up an infrastructure for Instant Messaging” article series. After installing the Openfire server (“Openfire server installation“), we are now ready to create some users. Login to the admin console and choose “Users/Groups”. There you should see the existing users under “User Summary”. Only “admin” is currently existent, so choose “Create New ...

This tutorial is the first part of the “Setting up an infrastructure for Instant Messaging” article series. In this tutorial, we are going to setup an Instant Messaging infrastructure for a private intranet. This should come really handy if you don’t wish to depend on solutions running on the internet or if your network administrator has blocked all the traditional ...

Instant messaging (IM) is nowadays one of the most used ways of communication and collaboration. In the next few articles I will be discussing how to create an infrastructure for instant messaging (IM) in your network. The articles will show you how to install and configure an IM server, as well as how to use a XMPP library in Java ...