Jabber
The stated focus of Jabber is to be a “conversational technology” for p2p in the most general sense, including not only person to person, but also person to application and especially application to application. Actually, Jabber more properly refers to a whole group of technologies that share common goals within an overall architecture.
Jabber (www.jabber.org) thus evolved as a project to bring together diverse applications, when a number of developers decided in 1998 to create a truly open, distributed p2p architecture as a basis for further specialized work. Jeremie Miller is credited as being behind that initiative. Public recognition came first in 1999.
The design began by choosing XML as a consistent way to encapsulate data, whatever ...
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