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Practical XMPP

You're reading from   Practical XMPP Unleash the power of XMPP in order to build exciting, realtime, federated applications based on open standards in a secure and highly scalable fashion

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785287985
Length 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lloyd Watkin has over 10 years of experience in building for the Web. A great believer in open source and open standards, he has contributed to, started, and led many successful open source projects and is also an international conference speaker.nLloyd was knowingly introduced to XMPP in 2012 and hasn't looked back. Its open standard base and the ability to code clients, servers, components in any language leads to a very diverse and healthy environment. Its relevance only seems to increase as new technologies (not imagined at the time of creation) come into existence.
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David Koelle is a Principal Software Engineer at Charles River Analytics Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has employed XMPP on projects to facilitate collaboration and shared situational awareness among distant teams. David is also the author of JFugue, a popular open source music programming API for Java and other JVM languages, and he is a co-organizer for the Boston Android Meetup. David has delivered several award-winning talks at high-profile conferences including JavaOne and SXSW. In addition to his technical work in software engineering and systems engineering, he finds opportunities to mentor engineers to help them grow in their careers and recognize the value that proactive leadership can bring to engineers and their environments. David is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
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Lloyd Watkin has over 10 years experience building for the web. A great believer in open source and open standards he has contributed to, started, and led many successful open source projects as well as being an international conference speaker. Lloyd was introduced to XMPP in 2012 and hasn't looked back. Its open standard base and the ability to code clients, servers, components in any language leads to a very diverse and healthy environment. Its relevance only seems to increase as new technologies (not imagined at the time of creation) come into existence.
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Preface 1. An Introduction to XMPP and Installing Our First Server FREE CHAPTER 2. Diving into the Core XMPP Concepts 3. Building a One-on-One Chat Bot - The "Hello World" of XMPP 4. Talking XMPP in the Browser Using XMPP-FTW 5. Building a Multi-User Chat Application 6. Make Your Static Website Real-Time 7. Creating an XMPP Component 8. Building a Basic XMPP-Based Pong Game 9. Enhancing XMPPong with a Server Component and Custom Messages 10. Real-World Deployment and XMPP Extensions

XMPP and the new rise of multi-user chat

XMPP is an open standard for federated multi-user communication, with excellent security and well-established user and development communities. There are a lot of commercial services that provide XMPP support and, despite a couple of high-profile departures from the use of XMPP (for example, Google Hangouts and Facebook Chat, which have deprecated their support for XMPP and are using proprietary, walled garden implementations), XMPP represents a solid foundation for building interoperable, multi-user applications.

One great example is Atlassian HipChat, which is based on XMPP. And while HipChat competitor Slack does not use XMPP behind the scenes, it does provide an XMPP gateway, which allows you to connect your Jabber client to a Slack server.

Compared to the late 1990, when the Jabber protocol was started and desktops were prevalent, today's most popular devices are mobile. The XSF is actively working on ways to improve XMPP support for mobile deployments...

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Lloyd Watkin has over 10 years of experience in building for the Web. A great believer in open source and open standards, he has contributed to, started, and led many successful open source projects and is also an international conference speaker. Lloyd was knowingly introduced to XMPP in 2012 and hasn't looked back. Its open standard base and the ability to code clients, servers, components in any language leads to a very diverse and healthy environment. Its relevance only seems to increase as new technologies (not imagined at the time of creation) come into existence.
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Lloyd Watkin
Lloyd Watkin has over 10 years experience building for the web. A great believer in open source and open standards he has contributed to, started, and led many successful open source projects as well as being an international conference speaker. Lloyd was introduced to XMPP in 2012 and hasn't looked back. Its open standard base and the ability to code clients, servers, components in any language leads to a very diverse and healthy environment. Its relevance only seems to increase as new technologies (not imagined at the time of creation) come into existence.
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David Koelle is a Principal Software Engineer at Charles River Analytics Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has employed XMPP on projects to facilitate collaboration and shared situational awareness among distant teams. David is also the author of JFugue, a popular open source music programming API for Java and other JVM languages, and he is a co-organizer for the Boston Android Meetup. David has delivered several award-winning talks at high-profile conferences including JavaOne and SXSW. In addition to his technical work in software engineering and systems engineering, he finds opportunities to mentor engineers to help them grow in their careers and recognize the value that proactive leadership can bring to engineers and their environments. David is a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
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