[JDEV] Using jabber for an application

[Philip Van Hoof]

Hi there,

I am the maintainer of a project called Gnome Clipboard Manager.
This is an application (that is under heavy development) that
handles managing your clipboards/selections, etc etc. It collects
the selections that you copied on a clipboard shelf (items).

One of it's planned features is networking support. We want to
build in a feature to secure transfer items in XML format to
another host (which must be running gnome clipboard manager
too). The other host can then accept or don't accept the items
from the sender.

We have plans to use Jabber's framework for this. Regretfully
I am not an instant messaging-user at all. A long time a go
I used to use ICQ but thats all.. So I am a bit lost in this
world :).

My questions
 - Where do I start? Some pointers to documentation? I prefer
   working examples/opensource|freesoftware applications.
 - Is it a good solution to use Jabber for this application?
   -> sending a bunch of information to another host running
      the same application (peer to peer). We want to use XML.
      We don't want a server. Each client can recive and send.
 - Are there other things that I should know before I begin?


More information about the application :
	http://gcm.sourceforge.net



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