I’m excited to announce that Peter, Kevin, and I recently got the green light from O’Reilly to start writing a book about Jabber/XMPP. The book will be targeted at a diverse public: on one hand, people who want to get acquainted with XMPP and will get an introduction and a general overview of XMPP, its workings, and its possibilities. On the other hand, software engineers who want to integrate XMPP into their products will get a guide to implementing different use cases of XMPP through a series of different developer stories. The book is expected to be available in 2009, so start making some room on your bookshelf!
Hmm, if we talk about integrating XMPP into products be sure to include a web scenario – most enterprise applications have a web frontend nowadays (look at the Java EE stack, for example.) Of course, it’s easy to see XMPP as an architectural technology between components, yet in a lot of cases it’s still better to use an MQ for that. Enterprise IM has still lots of unused potential.
(Didn’t know where to comment at the three of you, you mentioned integration, so I comment here
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