“Although Jabber is often discussed as if it were a single
server or client, it is actually a set of streaming XML protocols
and technologies containing a codebase from which all manners of
instant messaging (IM) servers and clients are built. Jabber is a
development platform for customizing and extending IM products
adhering to the open and freely available Extensible Messaging and
Presence Protocol (XMPP).“Jabber offers gateways for communicating with other IM
networks: Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), and
MSN Instant Messenger. This is subject to change, however, as the
big commercial networks are notorious for trying to block access to
users of the ‘wrong’ messaging clients and other networks. But the
Jabber maintainers do a good job of keeping up, and, of course, any
ace programmer can make modifications.
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