Programming Jabber

Some people I know are starting programming with Jabber/XMPP.

The classical book on the subject, "Programming Jabber (Programming)" (D.J. Adams), is a out-of-date, but is still good to browse for basic protocol notions, some of those are still the same. The entire book is also available online now.

The best book right now is probably "Jabber Developers Handbook (Developer's Library)" (William Wright, Dana Moore), but that is also a bit out-of-date.

So bottom line, there isn't a up-to-date book on the subject, so join the mailing lists at jabber.org and ask away...

For those in Perl-land, my suggestion would be to use the POE::Component::Jabber module, it's simple to use. I don't use the others in CPAN.

If you need help with Jabber programming, my Jabber ID is at the top of this page, left-hand side. Feel free to poke me.