Programming Jabber

jabber:iq:conference

The Conferencing service provides facilities for entities to join rooms and chat with each other. The entry negotiations that take place between a room (via the service) and a potential participant are made using the jabber:iq:conference namespace. With this namespace, information on rooms can be requested, and attempts to enter rooms can be made.

Warning

The jabber:iq:conference namespace is currently in a state of flux, as more conferencing features (such as being able to eject users from rooms) are requested and added into the definition. Because of this, the examples that follow are deliberately innocuous. The keyassist recipe in Section 9.1 in Chapter 9 describes and uses the older, but stable, conferencing protocol called “Groupchat.”