Component Instances
There’s a concept that encompasses Jabber’s configuration approach that is taken from the object-oriented (OO) world—the concept of objects (and classes) and instances thereof. In Jabber server configuration, specifically the description of the components that are to make up a particular Jabber server, we talk about instances of components, not components directly.
In other words, a component is something generic that is written to provide a specific service or set of services; when we put that component to use in a Jabber server, we customize the characteristics of that component by specifying detailed configuration pertaining to how that component will actually work. We’re creating an instance of that component.
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