[JDEV] iChat AV

[Julian Missig]

iChat does use Jabber (or a variant of it, at least), but only to talk 
to other iChats on the local network using Rendezvous for discovery. I 
don't think they'd switch to Jabber for public usage any time soon. 
First off, they had to pay AOL and get some contract to get AIM support 
in there like they have.. we don't know the details of that contract, 
but I'm willing to bet you that having them use an AIM transport isn't 
acceptable to AOL.

Julian

David 'TheRaven' Chisnall wrote:

> HAs anyone looked at iChat AV yet?  It claims to support open 
> standards for video and audio conferencing, and Steve Jobs indicated 
> that it should be able to interoperate with it.  This kind of 
> functionality looks really great, and it would be really nice if 
> Jabber could be used to set up this kind of conference with iChat AV 
> users as well as other Jabber users. 
> On a related note, Apple seems to be a fan of open standards, yet uses 
> AIM for their own IM app.  Has anyone from the JSF approached them 
> about using Jabber?  It would be quite a coup if a future version of 
> iChat used Jabber as the trasport.  A server running on mac.com could 
> authenticate against the existing users database, and communicate with 
> old versions of iChat and AIM users through a transport, while using 
> Jabber for everything else.  I doubt AOL would block a transport run 
> by a company like Apple... Seriously though, they are in an ideal 
> place to use Jabber, since they have an installed market share of IM 
> users, and they enjoy adding features to the top of the existing 
> protocol, making XMPP ideal for them.