http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/libraries/ has a list of software libraries for XMPP. Here is an outdated snapshot of it: ActionScript as3xmpp C iksemel libstrophe Loudmouth C++ gloox Iris oajabber C# / .NET / Mono agsXMPP SDK jabber-net Erlang Jabberlang Flash XIFF Haskell hsxmpp Java Echomine Feridian Jabber Stream Objects (JSO) Smack JavaScript strophe.js xmpp4js Lisp cl-xmpp Objective-C xmppframework … Read more
REST is an architectural style that does not impose a protocol. So yes, you can do REST with Web Sockets, REST with HTTP and REST with FTP if you like. The main reason to use HTTP is that it is easy and fairly simple to communicate with any component or programming language via HTTP and … Read more
contact list (in XMPP this is called a “roster”) Source: XMPP-IM – RFC 6121 § 1.3: Requirements
There is new api now. How does the Messenger Platform work? When a person sends a message to a business on Messenger and as long as this Page uses an app to partially or fully automate conversations, the following will happen. The Facebook server sends webhooks to the URL of the business server, where the … Read more
This is probably way too basic, but at least it’s technical: https://web.archive.org/web/20170916193014/http://www.adarshr.com/fun-with-xmpp-and-google-talk and the second part, https://web.archive.org/web/20171005104211/http://www.adarshr.com:80/fun-with-xmpp-and-google-talk-part-2 It explains what stanzas are, what types are available and stuff.
The short answer is ‘both’. XMPP is a set of application protocol for doing real-time chat (and many other things, for that matter) – it then has to be transported across the network somehow, so you need a transport binding. There are three main transport bindings for XMPP – TCP/IP, which is what one usually … Read more
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/websocket-client/ Ridiculously easy to use. sudo pip install websocket-client Sample client code: #!/usr/bin/python from websocket import create_connection ws = create_connection(“ws://localhost:8080/websocket”) print “Sending ‘Hello, World’…” ws.send(“Hello, World”) print “Sent” print “Receiving…” result = ws.recv() print “Received ‘%s'” % result ws.close() Sample server code: #!/usr/bin/python import websocket import thread import time def on_message(ws, message): print message def … Read more
Smack Smack is a open-source XMPP client library. Since version 4.1 it runs natively on Android. For more information have a look at the “Smack 4.3 Readme” and see the Smack project page at Ignite Realtime.