Instant Messaging in Java: The Jabber Protocols

By Iain Shiegoka and Iain Shigeoka

This book describes how to create Instant Messaging applications in Java and covers the Jabber IM protocols. If you want to create new IM systems, integrate them with your existing software, or wish... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930110464
• ISBN13: 9781930110465
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Length: 402 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Superb guide to Jabber development

Highly recommended for any developer with some Java experience who is interested in IM technology. Iain Shigeoka takes you through the background of the technology, and then takes you through an easy to follow guide to produce a fully working Jabber server and test client. The book also includes a very usefull reference section and stresses important issues relating to the technology. I have personally found this book invaluable whilst producing a Jabber framework as part of my dissertation, and has given me direction to further my knowledge in this area, buy the book!:)

Excellant and Informative book

Instant Messaging in Java is an excellant and informative book for all levels of programmers. If you are new to IM and would like a book that will catapult you into to this technology, this is the book for you. The program examples are easy to follow for if you have java experience. Also if you are an experiened programmer planning to implement production code the insights gained from this book are invaluable. Mr. Shigeoka has done an excellent job of stressing the Jabber protocols yet using java's multi-platform capabilities. Highly recommended!

A great Jabber book

A great book, very well written, and very intresting.Realy helped me to enter the new of world of Jabber, and to understand its internals.A must have.

I Couldn't Put it Down

I should not have started this book in the afternoon. I could not put it down. This is a very unusual book that teaches things that are Jabber unrelated. We participate in the construction of a Jabber server and Jabber client as we go through the book. The construction is not your usual namby-pamby baloney either. The construction, while not commercial grade, leaves us with an application which could easily be refactored into whatever you want to do with Jabber. Another good book by Manning. Manning is having quite a Fall in 2002.

Great book for Java Jabber developers

If you're a Java developer and are interested in creating a Jabber server, or embedding Jabber functionality into an existing application, this is a great book. The author iteratively builds a Jabber server, adding new features as each chapter explores additional parts of the Jabber protocols -- this is a very helpful approach. The Jabber protocol reference at the back of the book is also great.